Introduction

The records listed in this volume are what might be described as central records of the College – the minute books, the registers, the statutes and similar material, generated directly by the Provost and Fellows and the New Governing Body. There are, however, equally central records listed elsewhere. The Foundation and Consolidation Charters, and other royal charters, were listed by Noel Blakiston as ECR 39. He included other central records, particularly relating to the building of the College, in ECR 38 and ECR 49. Accounting records to 1642, including the audit rolls up to 1505, when they were replaced by books, are listed as ECR 61 and later accounting records as ECR 62. Papers produced by individual Provosts, Vice-Provosts and Fellows (though there are very few of this last category) will be found as COLL/P, COLL/VP or COLL/FELL as appropriate. The papers of officers such as the Bursar (COLL/B), Registrar(COLL/REG) and other College servants are also separately listed.

The catalogue of the College’s archives (now COLL/ARCH/1) compiled in 1724 by Thomas Martin (1697 – 1771) mentions the central records that existed at the time but does not list them individually. Binding, indexing and annotation of the registers in particular show clearly that their importance and value were recognised. Seal books, minute books and lease books were also carefully preserved. However, unbound papers were less well served by a storage system that was essentially organised by estate and were allowed to accumulate in considerable confusion until very roughly sorted by Noel Blakiston into boxes covering ten year periods. Provost Marten removed some items to the Provost’s Lodge and although they were eventually returned to the strong room they remained separate. There was therefore little to go on when trying to recreate the original order (described indeed by Provost Hawtrey as `a system of higgledy-piggledy’) and the arrangement is largely artificial. Some items relating to resumptions were found among estate records by Noel Blakiston and catalogued there but they have been noted in the appropriate place here for the sake of completeness.

Noel Blakiston worked principally on the records of individual estates, producing a series of typescript volumes, one per estate or group of estates. His final volume, ECR 58, was a translation of the Statutes. The College’s first full-time archivist, Patrick Strong, continued the series to ECR 65, but although he left some drafts for ECR 60 he never completed it. I have drawn gratefully on his work.

Historical background The foundation charter (ECR 39/3) envisaged a college of a Provost and ten priests, four clerks, six choristers, twenty-five poor scholars with a master and twenty-five poor men. By the time the Statutes were approved in 1452/3 these numbers had increased to ten chaplains, ten clerks, sixteen choristers, seventy scholars and a second teacher, and thirteen almsmen. The original ten priests were renamed priest fellows, and it was the Provost and Fellows who governed the College and managed the estates as well as being responsible for the extensive religious services. The number of fellows was reduced to seven in the hard times that followed the accession of Edward IV.

The Public Schools Act of 1868 (31 & 32 Vict.c.118) required the Provost and Fellows to appoint a New Governing Body to carry out reforms, or to have one imposed. They chose to appoint one, and possibly in deference to the founder’s original plans it had ten

1 members, the Provost and four of the existing Fellows and five outsiders. These outsiders were not resident and had no financial interest; they were, in fact, to be a governing body in the modern sense. Oxford University, Cambridge University, the Lord Chief Justice and the Royal Society each nominated one member. The Statute approving their appointment was sealed by the Provost and Fellows on 18 May 1869 and approved by the Queen in Council on 7 October 1869. The New Governing Body proceeded to reform the school, overhauling everything from the curriculum and examinations to the age of entry, and also to revise the Statutes, many of which had inevitably become hopelessly unworkable over the years. The Provost and Fellows continued to manage the estates and care for the buildings and the internal economy of the College (in the sense of the Provost, Fellows and scholars).Even the Special Commissioners appointed under the Act recognised the awkwardness of this division, by which the Provost and Fellows owned the land but the New Governing Body directed how the income was spent, and if they felt that a sale was needed had to requisition the Provost and Fellows. However, they initially rejected a proposal that under the new Statutes the members of the New Governing Body should become the Provost and Fellows although this was what eventually was decided. Under the 1871 Statutes in addition to the four nominees the Provost of King’s College Cambridge was Senior Fellow ex officio, the masters elected a representative (not one of the masters), and the remaining four places were filled by the Fellows themselves. In 1904, when the Statutes were again revised, the Vice-Provost was added to the Fellows and this is still the composition of the Fellows today.

The new Statutes were approved by the Queen in Council on 3 November 1871. They gave the existing Fellows equal powers to deal with all matters not specifically reserved to the New Governing Body (as they still were called, presumably to distinguish them from the old Fellows, even though they were now strictly speaking Fellows themselves). In practice, being resident, the old Fellows dealt with much of the estate work and internal matters but members of the New Governing Body began to attend their meetings, which became known as College meetings, and eventually took place four times a year. When the last original Fellow died in 1901, and with him any possible ambiguity, it was resolved to discontinue meetings of the New Governing Body and transact all business in meetings of the Provost and Fellows. This resolution was embodied in the Statutes of 1904.

Further reading : Tim Card : Eton Established (John Murray, 2001) Eton Renewed (John Murray, 1994)

Henry Maxwell Lyte : History of Eton College (Macmillan & Co., 4th ed., 1911)

Report of the Public Schools Commission (HMSO, 1864)

2 ECR 60/1 STATUTES OF ETON COLLEGE

Introduction

From approximately 1452 until 1871 the College was governed by a set of statutes approved by its founder Henry VI. A translation of these statutes, made by Noel Blakiston, forms ECR 58, and his introduction to that volume should be consulted not only for its account of the statutes themselves but also for its description of the various copies and nineteenth century printed editions available to him. In one respect, however, this work has been superseded. Blakiston refers to strong evidence of the existence of a set of statutes earlier than the final text (though that text was known as the Liber Originalis or first book) and in 1975 just such a set was discovered in the library of St. John’s College Cambridge. The Master and Fellows presented the manuscript to Eton in October 1976 and it now forms Ms.300. Dr. James Clarke, who has produced a description and analysis of the manuscript, suggests that it was originally drawn up between 1444 and 1446 and that the numerous additions and alterations in it reflect changes in the administration of the College in its early years rather than a major reassessment of its role. The Liber Originalis was thus the culmination of a long process rather than a completely new start.

In 1869, in obedience to the Public Schools Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vic. c.118), the Provost and Fellows appointed a New Governing Body whose first duty was to make a new set of statutes. These were approved by the Queen in Council on 3 November 1871 and the last meeting held under the old statutes was 21 November 1871. From that date the Founder’s statutes were entirely repealed. A number of amendments to these new statutes were found to be necessary and these were consolidated in a new set of statutes approved on 24 October 1904. Again following various amendments, a revised set was approved on 3 August 1945 and the College is now governed by statutes approved on 24 October 1973, again somewhat amended.

A fifteenth – century working copy of the Liber Originalis, now known as the Vice-Provost’s book (ECR 60/1/2), contains several subsequent documents of importance, notably relating to the long-running complaints of the Fellows of King’s College Cambridge about their rights to Eton fellowships. A dispensation of George I permitting a married Head Master, found loose, may have originally been inserted in this volume (ECR 60/1/7). There are also two seventeenth century copies of the statutes and (ECR 60/1/5) one of three transcripts made in the eighteenth century by Roger Huggett, one of the conducts. The other two, in the British Library and the Bodleian Library, contain comments absent from the Eton copy on the Fellows’ disregard for the Statutes, and were the source for the first printed transcription in 1818, found as Appendix (A) to the Fourth Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Education of the Lower Orders. William Roberts, Vice-Provost 1818 – 1833, made a further transcription in 1819 (ECR 60/1/6) and another eighteenth century transcription was presented by King’s College in 1990 to mark Eton’s 550th anniversary (ECR 60/1/19/3).

The 1869 statute for appointing the New Governing Body, and all subsequent statutes, were printed, often in multiple copies (now weeded). Orders in Council for the amendment of statutes have been preserved (ECR 60/1/18) though the sealed originals have not survived in all cases. Drafts and discussion of the content of these statutes will

3 be found among the papers of the New Governing Body (especially ECR 60/7/3) and the post-1904 Provost and Fellows (ECR 60/8) and in the papers of Provosts and Bursars.

Further reading :

Noel Blakiston : ECR 58 (ts, 1973) James Clarke : Eton Ms.300 . Summary Description and Analysis (ts, 2000) James Heywood & Thomas Wright : The Ancient Laws of the 15th Century for King’s College Cambridge and ... Eton College (Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1850) Henry Maxwell Lyte : History of Eton College (Macmillan & Co., 4th ed. 1911)

60/1/1 Liber Originalis 1447 - 1455 [1452-1453] Vellum; ii + 32 +2 +2. Cords for seal attached. f.i (v) Note of division of statutes into three parts 15th cent This division was apparently based on number of folios rather than content and was ignored by Huggett and later editors. f.5 (v) Statutes f.34(v) List of parochial festivals 15th cent Guard Letter with sign manual of Elizabeth I 11 June [1566] `The dispensing statute’ annulling Statute 25 and allowing each Fellow to hold one benefice worth not more than 40 marks pa Guard Memorandum of the decision of the Visitor 5 Aug 1815 in the matter of the complaint of members of King’s College Cambridge concerning the holding of benefices by Eton Fellows

60/1/1a Letter from Provost and Fellows of King’s College 3 Feb 1814 Cambridge giving notice of their appeal to the Visitor against the holding of benefices by Fellows of Eton

60/1/1b Record of second appeal by King’s College Cambridge 8 April 1816

60/1/1c Photocopy of certificate stating that Stephen Upman MA [13 Aug 1681] deserves the royal letter of dispensation to be admitted D.D. in the University of Cambridge to qualify him for election as Provost of King’s. Signed by William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Henry Compton, Bishop of London Endorsed: Original letter is in the National Portrait Gallery. L.Cust Dec. 98 (60/1a, 1b and 1c were formerly loose in the back of 60/1/1)

4 60/1/2 The Vice-Provost’s Book 15th cent A working copy of the Liber Originalis. A note lost in 19th cent. rebinding but recorded by Huggett read `Donum M. Richardi Hopton STP et quondam socius hujus Collegii’. Hopton was Vice-Provost 1477-1499. Vellum; v +38 +8 (+8 between 7 & 8 of that quire) +2 See N.R.Ker : Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries Vol. II (Oxford, 1977) for binding, pastedowns etc Various amendments, notes and memoranda have been added 15th-19th cent.

f.1 List of statutes. f.2 Statutes f.37 (v) Letters patent concerning the declaring, correcting 12 July 1455 and reforming of the Statutes by the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester Corrections and alterations made by the bishops f.39 Dispensing Statute 24 Oct 1566 Oath for the Queen’s Supremacy 1558 (1 Eliz.1 c.1.s19) An Acte against abuses in election of Schollers 1588/9 and presentation of Benefices f.40v Letters under the Signet No scholar to be named to go from Eton to King’s 14 July 1600 until a place is actually vacant Dispensation for John Chamber to remain a Fellow 8 March 1602 in addition to holding a prebend at St. George’s Chapel Windsor according to the dispensing statute Confirmation of the above 24 Feb 1604 Authority to the Vice-Provost to deputise for the 19 Sept 1623 Provost in all Collegiate acts f.41 Oath of allegiance to Charles II f.42 Memoranda on elections of scholars, cancellation 1629-1693 of indentures and certificates of age, signed by the electors f.43 Mandate from William Laud, Archbishop of 11 March 1636/7 Canterbury. At least five Fellows of Eton are to be elected from present or former members of King’s College, Cambridge f.43(v) Letter from William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury 24 Oct 1637 and Thomas Coventry, Ist Baron Coventry, Lord Keeper, ordering that the Vicar of New Windsor should be one of the Fellows of the College f.44 Petition of the Provost and Fellows of King’s College [1675-1681] to Charles II requesting that Archbishop Laud’s mandate on the election of Kingsmen as Fellows be observed f.44 (v) Letter with sign manual of Charles II ordering that 26 Nov 1679 Archbishop Laud’s mandate should be strictly observed f.45 Response of the Visitor to the petition of King’s College 5 Aug 1815

5 60/1/2 cont. Cambridge against the holding of livings by Eton Fellows f.45(v) Dismissal by the Visitor of a second Appeal 8 April 1816 f.46 Visitor’s answer to the Rev. Samuel Berney Vince’s 29 July 1817 appeal on the election of Rev. John Bird Sumner as Fellow of Eton f.54(v) Report of a visit by King George III, members of the 28 July 1778 Royal Family, and others to hear Speeches f.55 Fees paid to College servants on various occasions 7 Aug 1758 Note of water in small beer cellar Dec 1768

60/1/3 The Bursar’s Book 17th cent. The origin of this traditional name is obscure but Huggett refers to the Bursar’s `detestably bad’ copy of the Statutes. Parchment; iv +52. See N. Ker, op.cit., for binding etc Pencil note on verso of front flyleaf : Collated by C. O. Goodford, Provost. (All statutes marked Collated C.O.G.)

f.2(v) Contents f.1 Statutes f.49 Letters patent of 1455 and declarations by Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester on revision of the Statutes. Note in Provost’s Goodford’s hand of the Founder’s death, taken from King’s College Statutes, and of the form of oath for Provosts, Fellows and Head Masters f.52 Drawing of the College swanmark in red and black ink

60/1/4 Eton College Book 1693 17th cent. This title was invented by Patrick Strong from entries on the flyleaves. Parchment with paper flyleaves; iv + 52 +1

f.ii Title page f.ii(v) Table of Statutes Statute 1 is called Introductio, not Mens et Institutio, and not numbered. Statute 2 is numbered 1 and numbering stops at 49. f.1 Statutes f.39(v) Letters patent of 1455 and declarations by Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester

60/1/5 Roger Huggett’s Book c.1759 Transcript of 60/1/1 collated with 60/1/2 Paper; viii + 256pp. At the end of most statutes appears `Collatum J.G.’ (Provost Goodall). Goodall has added occasional side notes and there are later pencil notes and underlinings p.i Index

6 60/1/5 cont. p.1 Statutes, including additional Statutes, Letters patent of 1455 and Declarations by Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester p.246 Visitor’s decrees 1815 - 1817

60/1/6 Mr. Robert’s Book 1819 On verso of front end-paper : Statutum quaedam Etonensis Collegii in usum Vice-Praepositi. W.R.1819 Added in the hand of Rev. George Dupuis (Vice-Provost 1868-1884): This copy of the Statutes was written by the Revd. William Roberts Vice-Provost from 1818 to 1833. There follows the date of Roberts’ death and a list of his successors. Marginal corrections in several 19th cent. hands. Several titles are marked in the index `Not written out’ or `Written short’; Roberts presumably decided to omit or abridge obsolete Statutes. viii+ 250pp p.i Contents p.1 Statutes

60/1/7 Dispensation 9 May 1720 Dispensation of George I allowing the appointment of Henry Bland as Head Master although he is married

60/1/8 Statute for appointing the New Governing Body of Eton 1869 School made by the existing Governing Body of that School in pursuance of the Public Schools Act, 1868

60/1/9 Statute for providing against any Election to a Fellowship 1870 of Eton College which may become vacant before the 1st day of January 1871 without the consent of the New Gov- erning Body

60/1/10 Statutes 1871 /1 1 vol., Statutes of Eton College gilt-stamped on front cover, with stamp of College arms. A later hand has added in ink: `The Bursary’ and ‘1871’. Signature of J.J. Hornby on front pastedown /2 Paper covered copy titled Statutes 1871

60/1/11 1871 Statutes with amendments approved by Her Majesty 1894 in Council and Scheme for the Improvement of the Property of Eton College..., 1873 (4 copies)

60/1/12 Statutes 1904 /1 Sealed copy /2 Sealed copy. Titled on front cover ‘ Sealed Copy. Statutes 1904. Title page : `2 proofs’ and `Statutes of’ added in ink.

7 60/1/12 cont. Heading amended to read Eton College. Statutes approved by the King in Council October 24th 1904 /3 Volume bound as 1/10 /1 above (4 copies) a) contains (loose) a letter from Edward Austen Leigh to Francis Warre Cornish commenting on certain statutes, 9 Nov 1904; copy of letter from [Provost Marten] to Harold Baker (1877 – 1960) Warden of Winchester, on proof that a scholarship candidate is the son of a natural born British subject, 26 Sept 1945 b) inscribed on flyleaf `The Bursary’ c) College bookplate

60/1/13 Statutes of 1904 with amendments approved by the King in Council 1945 (2 copies)

60/1/14 Statutes of 1904 as amended to 1945. Copy belonging to the Bursar 1967 with additional ms amendments to 1967

60/1/15 Statutes 1973 /1 1 vol. marked Archives Copy /2 1 vol. marked Bursar’s Copy /3 paper binding (3 copies) a) Bursar’s copy. Please return b) Frederick Coleridge’s copy

60/1/16 Reprint of 1973 Statutes with amendments to 1980 (5 copies) 1986

60/1/17 Reprint of 1973 Statutes with amendments to 1999 (9 copies) 1999 a-h bound in black

60/1/18 Orders in Council for the amendment of the Statutes 1869-1999 (29 items). Includes sealed originals and copies See also 60/12/12/1

60/1/19 Miscellaneous /1 Translation of the Founder’s Statutes [19th cent] Section of a larger volume, traces of leather spine still attached. Many alterations /2 Notebook (lacking cover) containing extracts from the [c.1814] Statutes and copies of documents relating to the appeal of King’s College Cambridge against the Fellows of Eton holding ecclesiastical preferment in addition to their Fellow- ships /3 Copy of the Statutes on vellum, presented to Eton by King’s 18th cent College on the occasion of Eton’s 550th anniversary in 1990. Bookplate of King’s College with label recording the gift. In wooden box labelled `Statuta Collegii Regali de Etona’. /4 Statutes, Schemes and Regulations made under the Public 1874 Schools Acts

8

ECR 60/2 STATUTES OF KING’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

Introduction

Henry VI ordered that sealed copies of the statutes of Eton and King’s should be deposited in a chest in the treasury of each college, with a further copy of each volume in their libraries for the use of the Fellows. (Eton Statute 45, King’s College Statute 60). The sealed Eton copy of the King’s statutes has long since disappeared but the library copy is probably the volume listed here as ECR 60/2/1.

There are two other manuscript copy of the King’s statutes. One, ECR 60/2/2, bears the bookplate of Berkeley Seymour, Fellow of King’s 1706 –1744. Roger Huggett, the Eton conduct who transcribed the Eton statutes, says that Thomas Southernwood, Fellow of King’s 1728 – 1752 and of Eton 1752 – 1776, had `met with’ a copy of the King’s statutes in a `tolerable good law hand’ transcribed by a Chaplain of the college, and offered it to Eton. This may be that copy; although Provost Okes refers in 1860 to the copy `presented by Seymour’ that would be a not unreasonable deduction from the bookplate if knowledge of the actual donor had been lost. The second, (ECR 60/2/3/2) elaborately bound, was presented by Edward Betham in 1771, the year in which he became a Fellow of Eton. Betham’s inscription says it was for the Provost’s use, and certainly Provost Hawtrey at least studied it carefully.

King’s revised its statutes somewhat earlier than Eton, in 1861, and two copies of these statutes are present (ECR 60/2/4), stamped, perhaps in obedience to King Henry’s injunctions, Eton College and Eton College Library respectively. A further revision was made in 1882 and as at Eton there were subsequent revisions and amendments, including a new set in 1927. Correspondence on these various revisions survives, especially for the nineteenth century, but the papers listed here deal almost entirely with statutes relating to Eton Scholarships. ECR 60/2/16 is a document of particular interest, being a transcript of material relating to the election of Charles Roderick as Provost of King’s in 1689, the occasion of a significant debate as to the Crown’s right of nomination to this position. It was originally drawn up by John Reynolds, Fellow of Eton 1733 – 1758, who went to King’s in 1689.

60/2/1 Statutes 15th cent. The Founder had ordered in Statute 45 that a sealed copy of King’s College Statutes should be placed in a chest in the treasury with a copy in the Library for the convenience of members of the College. This volume, which bears no traces of a seal, is probably the copy ff.i + 38 + i. Contemporary foliation ff.1-37 in red. Brown leather binding, blind stamped, with clasps for chains. f.1 Statutes. Marginal additions and alterations f.37v Memorandum of the date of death of Henry VI and the date of laying the foundation stone f.38 Capitula f.38v Letters patent authorising the Bishops of Winchester and 12 July 1455 Lincoln to reform the Statutes; declarations and corrections

9 60/2/2 Mr. Seymour’s book pre-1744 Named from the bookplate of Berkeley Seymour, Fellow of King’s from 1706, who died 1744. Provost Okes in 1860 refers to the copy ‘presented by Seymour’. pp.viii + 177, contemporary pagination 1-160. Red leather binding with gilt tooling, KC in centre. Bookplate of Berkeley Seymour, Eton College added in red. p.iii Title page with elaborate penwork p.v Statutum index capitulorum p.1 Statutes p.139 Interpretation of Statute 46 by the Bishop of Lincoln, 1594 p.145 Interpretation of certain Statutes by the Bishop of Lincoln. 1604 p.153 Confirmation by James I, 4 June 1604 p. 155 Composition between the University and the College, 14 February 1456

60/2/2a Receipt of Richard Okes, Provost-elect of King’s College, 7 Nov 1850 for the copy of the King’s College statutes presented by Berkeley Seymour, for use before the Visitor 60/2/2b Envelope inscribed : ‘Receipt from the Provost of King’s for 17 Oct 1860 the ancient ms copy of the KC Statutes on Vellum, which was placed in his hands by me this day in London`. Signature of Provost Hawtrey. [This is presumably 60/2/1] 60/2/2c Enclosed in 2b, receipt of Richard Okes. (60/2a, 2b and 2c were loose in the front of 60/2/2)

60/2/3/1 Statutes, interpretations, letter of James I, composition with nd University (ms) On pastedown : signature N. Kent, with note that the book was to be given to a member of King’s College ‘after my decease’. Below, signature of Edward Betham, with note that it is the gift of Thomas Hews, administrator of the Revd. Mr. Nathaniel Kent, who died 16 March 1766 There follows a list of statutes and a list of variant readings, in the hand of George Bethell (Fellow of Eton 1818 – 1850) 60/2/3/2 c.1771 A fair copy including interpretations by the Visitor Inscription on flyleaf ; 1771/Collegio Beatae Mariae de Etona/in usum Praepositi/Dat E Betham Socius Below, in pencil in later hand : returned to College Library June 1923 Notes by Provost Hawtrey on the holding of a benefice by the Provost of King’s; marginal notes, probably by him, throughout

60/2/4 Interpretations of the Statutes 18th cent 1 vol. with paper label 8 on front

10 60/2/4 cont. Interpretations by the Visitor, with confirmation by James I, 1594-1604. Comments have been added by later hands, including Provost Goodall’s, with especial reference to Eton Statutes

60/2/5 Statutes of King’s College Cambridge 1861 /1 I vol. printed on vellum. Blind stamped with arms of King’s College; lettered in gilt Statutes of King’s College, Cambridge. (above) and Eton College (below) /2 As /1, on paper. Title Eton College Library, with College Library bookplate

60/2/6 Proposed Statutes for King’s College (printed) 1881

60/2/7 Statutes of King’s College made by the Cambridge University 1895 Commissioners ... approved by the Queen in Council, 29 June 1882, with the subsequent alterations... approved by the Queen in Council

60/2/8 Statute F - Scholarships. 1891

60/2/9 Statute F- Scholarships 1902

60/2/10 Statute E-Fellowships, and Statute F-Scholarships 1903

60/2/11 Statutes 1927 A. F. Schofield’s copy, with amendments and additions

60/2/12 1927 Statutes with amendments to 1952 (1 vol) 1952

60/2/13 Amendments to statutes (loose) 1952 - 1955

60/2/14 1927 Statutes with amendments to 1966 (1 vol) 1967

60/2/15 Papers relating to Eton scholarships /1 Confirmation of new Statutes of King’s 1861 /2 Correspondence of Eton Electors and Provost of King’s July 1861 concerning notification of a vacancy (2 items) /3 Petition of the Provost and Scholars of King’s to the Privy 20 July 1861 Council (printed) /4 Draft petition to the Queen by Eton College 23 July 1861 /5 Order in Council 25 July 1861 /6 Order in Council 26 July 1866 /7 Statute approved by the Queen in Council 12 Jan 1891 /8 Draft of proposed alterations March 1894 /9 Letter from the Provost of King’s to the Eton Governing 28 March 1894 Body explaining proposed alterations (printed)

11 60/2/16 Transcript by George Dupuis, Vice-Provost 1868 – 1885, nd of documents relating to the election of Charles Roderick as Provost of King’s College, 1689, including a speech of John Layton, Fellow of King’s, to King William III on his visit to the College The account of this election was given by John Reynolds, Fellow of Eton 1733 – 1758, who went up to King’s in 1689

12 ECR 60/3 REGISTERS

Introduction

In Statute 35 it is ordered that nothing should be sealed with the College seal unless it had been written in the register after `mature deliberation’ by the Provost and Fellows. The register was to be written by a `learned and discreet clerk’. For the first years of the College’s life all types of instrument were entered in one book but it was then found more convenient to separate the recording of leases from more formal business and a lease book (60/12/3/1) was begun in 1457, although there was initially some overlap and both volumes should be consulted.

Recorded in the registers are the elections of Provosts and Fellows, including any necessary oaths; presentations to College livings; letters from the Crown; probates of wills and grants of administration. Even during the existence of a separate Probate Register (60/11/1/1) some wills are entered in the main register.

Edward Betham (Fellow 1771-1783) and Joseph Goodall (Provost 1809-1840) both made notes in the registers and Goodall in particular worked on them extensively, paginating them in red. The existing bindings probably date to Goodall’s time, since he refers to a note in Register 1 being `on the cover’, suggesting that at that date the volume was still in its original vellum binding only.

60/3/1 Lease Book Register 1445 - 1531 209ff (17th cent. foliation has f.157 twice) Summaries, titles and (often incorrect) dates for each document have been entered in the margins in a variety of hands and dates. Front pastedown : Regestarii Collegii Regalis B[ea]te Marie de Eton. Note of acquittance to the Abbot of Reading for 100s for land in East Hendred, mid-15th cent. f.1 (v) Ordinance by the Provost on the observance of the Sabbath within the peculiar jurisdiction of the College precincts, 26 December 1482 ff.18-20, 22-25 Manumissions of inhabitants of College estates, 1460- 1461 f. 204 Hidagium Beauple secta et Ward’ de Eton’ volut’ per annum (figures transcribed by Provost Goodall) f. 206 List of rents paid to Windsor Castle for lands and tenements in the parish of Eton Transcribed by Provost Goodall Rear pastedown : pen trials, one in Greek An 18th century index has been inserted between the final folio and the original back cover, now the paste-down (6pp).

60/3/2 Register 1 1457 - 1536 [1554] viii + 170pp (paginated in red by Provost Goodall; 2 earlier foliations) p ii List of Provosts, Henry Sever to Henry Savile, and notes p.iv `Among ye papers Relating to Eton Estate in ye Muniment house’ Extract from Act of Resumption 1 Edw.IV c.1 s.4

13 60/3/2 cont. Below is a note on the date of Henry VI’s restoration p.vi Note that John Mowe (e)r’s election is the first entry. Notes on fellows by Provost Goodall p.iv List of fellows and chaplains, with name of Provost admitting them p.169 Note on breaking of the College seal in March 1474 Tipped in at rear, list of contents by page, annotated by Provost Goodall (8 pp.)

60/3/3 Register 2 1529 - 1575 [1590] iv + 143pp.(paginated in red by Provost Goodall; earlier incorrect foliation) Entries for 1576-1590 have been added not in sequence but at the foot of pages where there was a space (pp.125, 135, 138, 140) p. ii Contemporary notes on Provostship 1559-1560, with notes by Provost Goodall p. iii Notes on elections to Provostship (transcript of p.ii) p. 143 Notes by Provost Goodall and others

60/3/4 Register 3 1577 - 1666 ii + 70ff 18th cent. list of contents, with some additions by Provost Goodall (4 ff)

60/3/5 Register 4 1659 - 1802 iv + 281 + 2ff. Paginated pp.1-75, after which the numeration continues as foliation f. iii (v) List of Provosts, Nicholas Monck to Edward Hawtrey ff.31-32 between these leaves a note signed JH (John Hanson, Notary public to the College) has been inserted : `there was a Leafe cutt out here Numbered 63 & 64 (the same being by accident defaced) But the Contents were first entred on that which followeth viz fol.65’ f.280 Index, 19th and 20th cent.

60/3/6 Register 5 1803 - 1881 357 pp. p.352 Index

60/3/7 Register 6 1881 - 1920 382 pp. p.379 Index From 1904, some original documents are fastened in

60/3/8 Register 7 1920 - 1946 xxvi + 387 pp. p.i Index

60/3/9 Register 8 1946 - 1970 390 pp. Indexed

14 60/3/10 Register 9 1970 - 1989 404 pp.

15 60/4 APPOINTMENT OF PROVOSTS

Introduction

The Provost is the head of the College. The Founder’s Statutes ordered that he was to be a priest, at least thirty years old, a Fellow of either Eton or King’s or a former member of either, a Master of Arts and also a Master or Bachelor of Theology or a Doctor of Canon Law. He was to be nominated by the Eton Fellows and the successful candidate was to be presented to the College Visitor, the Bishop of Lincoln, for confirmation. The Bishop then presented him to his position; this ecclesiastical step was necessary because the Provost was also Rector of Eton, involving a cure of souls. In 1871 the requirement that he should be in orders was dropped, although he was still expected to be a member of the Church of England (subsequently amended to being a member of a church in communion with it); he had to be a Master of Arts from the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge. In 1973 this was extended to allow a qualification deemed comparable.

The original Statutes make no mention of nomination of the Provost by the Crown, shown so clearly here but on occasions when the Fellows attempted to assert their independence they were often thwarted by the reluctance of the non-approved candidate. The 1871 Statutes definitely placed the right of nomination with the Crown.

These papers are mainly of a formal nature, relating to the election and admission of the Provost. A document of c.1695 (60/4/7) describes the procedure, which is reflected in the archives. Admission by the Bishop of Lincoln was followed by a mandate from him to the Vice-Provost to induct the new Provost, by the swearing of the necessary oaths and subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles, and certificates that this had been done. Also included are papers relating to the eligibility of certain candidates, notably Sir Thomas Smith, who as a layman required a dispensation to hold a cure of souls.

Records of individual Provosts are listed as COLL/P. Their elections and the records of their oaths on appointment can be found in the registers (60/3) and accounts of the funerals and installations of later Provosts will mainly be found in the papers of individual Provosts and in the records of the Bursar, Junior Bursar and Works Department. Included here, however, is an account of the funeral of Provost Cradock.

60/4/1 Notices of election of new Provost, including drafts 1661 - 1862 (7 items)

60/4/2 Royal letters 1660 - 1682 /1 Nicholas Monck : copies (2 copies) 7 July 1660 /2 John Meredith 26 Feb 1661/2 /3 Richard Allestree : copy 21 July 1665 /4 Zachary Cradock 20 Feb 1680 /5 Henry Godolphin 16 Oct 1695 /6 Henry Bland 29 Jan 1732/3 /7 Stephen Sleech 26 May 1746 /8 Edward Barnard 17 Oct 1765

16 60/4/2 cont. /9 Joseph Goodall 12 Dec 1809 /10 Francis Hodgson 6 April 1840, 18 April 1840 /11 Charles Old Goodford : original and copy 10 Feb 1862 /12 Edmond Warre : includes papers relating to his 27 Nov 1909 installation and to the death and funeral of Provost Hornby /13 Montague Rhodes James : includes papers relating 25 Sept 1918 to his installation /14 Lord Hugh Cecil 27 Sept 1936 /15 Clarence Henry Marten 23 Jan 1945 /16 Claude Elliott 29 July 1949 /17 Harold Caccia 28 April 1965 /18 Sir Martin Charteris 8 Oct 1977 /19 Sir Antony Acland 18 June 1991 /20 William Eric Kinloch Anderson 11 Oct 2000

60/4/3 Admission to the Provostship by the Bishop of Lincoln 1621/2 - 1862 /1 Thomas Murray 2 March 1621/2 /2 Stephen Sleech 11 June 1746 /3 Edward Barnard 28 Oct 1765 /4 Joseph Goodall 26 Dec 1809 /5 Francis Hodgson 7 May 1840 /6 Charles Old Goodford 21 Feb 1862

60/4/4 Bishop of Lincoln’s mandate to the Vice-Provost to induct 1765 - 1862 /1 Edward Barnard 28 Oct 1765 /2 William Hayward Roberts 18 Dec 1781 /3 Joseph Goodall 26 Dec 1809 /4 Francis Hodgson 7 May 1840 /5 Charles Old Goodford 21 Feb 1862

60/4/5 Provost’s Oaths 1621 - 1862 /1 Thomas Murray : notary’s certificate 4 March 1621 /2 Henry Godolphin : notary’s certificate and transcript 2 Nov 1695 /3 Henry Bland : notary’s certificate 22 Feb 1732 /4 Edward Barnard : Registrar’s certificate 30 Oct 1765 /5 Charles Old Goodford [1862]

60/4/6 Subscription to Thirty-Nine Articles 1695 - 1782 /1 Henry Godolphin 17 Nov 1695 (on rear endpaper of Articles agreed upon ... in the Convocation holden at London in the Year 1562. London: Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1690). Assent certified by signatures of Fellows and a notary /2 Zachary Cradock (unsigned) [1681] /3 Henry Bland : drafts of Fellows’ certificates (2 items) 25 March 1733 /4 William Hayward Roberts : certificate from the Bishop 18 Dec 1781 of his subscription to the Articles, endorsed with

17 60/4/6/4 cont. memorandum of his reading in on 23 December 1781, signed by Henry Sleech and John Young; declaration of William Hayward Roberts and memorandum of his reading in on 6 January 1782, signed by John Young and Edward Chamberlayne /5 Charles Old Goodford : certificates from the Bishop of his confirmation to the liturgy and Thirty-Nine Articles, 21 Feb 1862 (2 items)

60/4/7 The manner of choosing a Provost into Eton College upon 1695 a vacancy

60/4/8 Papers on eligibility of candidates 1621 - 1853 /1 Copy of a letter from the Bishop of Lincoln to the 23 Feb 1621 Marquess of Buckingham concerning the granting of a dispensation to Thomas Murray, a layman, to hold a cure of souls /2 Papers concerning the claim of Edmund Waller to be 1681 elected Provost (23 items) /3 Opinion of Mr. Yorke on Edward Barnard’s qualifications [1765] for election /4 Extract from Tanner Mss., vol. 158, on dispensations nd for electing a layman as Provost

60/4/9/1 Letter from James I authorising the Vice-Provost and 8 Aug 1623 Fellows to seal leases during the interregnum in the Provostship /2 Letter from James I to the Vice-Provost and Fellows 19 Sept 1623 deputing the Vice-Provost to act as Provost during the vacancy

60/4/10 Account of the funeral of Provost Cradock 19 Oct 1695 Order of procession and disposal of the company in the Lodgings

60/4/11 Gathering containing speech made by John Burton (Vice Oct 1765 Provost 1752-1771) on presenting Edward Barnard to the Bishop of Lincoln for confirmation of his election as Provost; sermon preached by Burton at the funeral of Provost Sleech (see also Ms.301)

60/4/12 Papers relating to the election of Provost Hawtrey, 1853 including draft of letter to the Prime Minister notifying him of the election and draft certificates from the Bishop of Lincoln (5 items)

60/4/13 Draft of request from the College to the Bishop of Lincoln 1862 to admit the Provost they have elected (name left blank)

18 60/4/14 Letter from the Bishop of Lincoln authorising the Vice- 24 Nov 1863 Provost to affix the College Seal in the absence of the Provost

60/4/15 Memorandum by Provost Quickswood on the installation 1944 and induction of the Provost

60/4/16 Notes by Clarence Henry Kennett Marten, Vice-Provost, on Sept 1944 the functions and emoluments of the Provost and Vice-Provost

60/4/17/1 Account by George Dupuis, Vice-Provost 1868 – 1885, 7 April 1840 of the death and funeral of Provost Goodall and the election of John Lonsdale as his successor /2 Account by George Dupuis, Vice-Provost 1868 – 1885, [May 1840] of the election of Francis Hodgson as Provost in place of Mr. Lonsdale and of his installation

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60/5 APPOINTMENTS OF FELLOWS

Introduction

These records relate to Fellows appointed prior to the reform of the Statutes in 1871. The registers (60/3) contain details of elections and the taking of oaths.

The Founder had specified that his College should include ten `priest fellows’ who were to be `of sufficiency in letters, having skill and ability in reading and singing’, Masters or Bachelors of Theology or Doctors of Canon Law (Statute 9). They were to be resident at Eton and a Fellow obtaining a benefice had to resign within a year; accepting a benefice within five miles of the College was forbidden (Statute 25). In hard times under Edward IV the number of Fellows was reduced to four, and even when the College was saved from amalgamation with St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, and received back some of its possessions, it was not able to support the full complement of ten; the number was increased again to seven only and remained the same even when the College’s fortunes improved. When Protestant clergy able to marry replaced the celibate Catholic priests envisaged by the Founder Eton did not require its fellows to resign on marriage; instead a dispensation was obtained from Queen Elizabeth in 1566 to allow a living to be held in conjunction with a fellowship (60/1/1). The Provost and Fellows appointed the Head Master and were responsible for the seventy King’s Scholars but otherwise played no part in the running of the school. Their extensive religious duties largely lapsed with the Reformation although they continued to preach – badly, by later accounts – in College Chapel but their main responsibilities were the running of the College estates.

The Statutes specified that Eton Fellows were to be elected from present or former Fellows of King’s College Cambridge, Eton chaplains or former members of Eton College, although suitably qualified candidates from other colleges or places might be considered. The reduction in numbers, the dispensation, and royal interest all reduced the number of fellowships available to Kingsmen, who protested to the King. In 1636 Archbishop Laud confirmed that five of the fellowships should be reserved to Kingsmen (ECR 39/170) but the Civil War and Charles II’s need to reward loyal followers after the Restoration made this something of a dead letter - though the three letters here concerning Dennis Grenvile, who never actually achieved a fellowship, show that royal recommendation did not always produce results. Troublesome contests for vacant places led in 1670 to a royal confirmation of Laud’s decree (ECR 39/173) and a subsequent order to disregard any letters contrary to it. The flow of royal letters in fact ceases at this point. The Fellows of King’s however continued to feel disadvantaged and the King’s College archives contain a file of correspondence 1679-1681 on the subject. In 1685 this culminated in the presentation of a petition to the King – reflected in the Eton archives only by a statement of the case made some two months later to Lord Dartmouth, and presented to the College in 1926 (60/5/4/2) and some 18th century copies of the relevant documents (60/5/11). This was followed by a further confirmation of the decree (ECR 39/174). Although by the mid-eighteenth century the appointment of non-Kingsmen was rare, the use, contrary to Statute, of Queen Elizabeth’s dispensation was in 1814 the subject of an appeal to the Visitor of both Colleges, the Bishop of Lincoln. He admitted the justice of the King’s College case but was unwilling to overturn what was by then established custom. Papers relating to the appeal have been included here (see also 60/1/19).

20 By this time the progress from King’s Scholar at Eton to Fellow of King’s, often followed by a return to teach at Eton with a fellowship there as a sort of pension was well established. The rewards of an Eton fellowship included not only a house in College, the statutory allowances (Fellows had long ceased to dine communally in College Hall except on special occasions), and the chance to hold one of the richer College livings and exercise patronage in presenting to the less well-endowed, but also a share of the fines or premiums paid by tenants renewing their leases. These fines were generally considerably in excess of the rents but were simply divided up among the Provost and Fellows. A system of paying dividends from surplus funds had existed at an earlier date (see Kerri Dexter : The Provision of Choral Music at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and Eton College, c.1640 – 1733 (unpublished D.Phil thesis, 2000) but then the dividends had been spread rather more widely. The Select Committee on the Education of the Lower Orders, 1818, did not query the principle – such bodies as cathedral chapters operated in the same way – so much as the fact that the scholars had no share in it. The Public Schools Commission was much more critical of the role of the Fellows and when the new Statutes were approved on 3 November 1871 the old religious foundation found no place in it. The rights of the Lower Master to an old-style fellowship were however protected and he was duly elected to one in 1877. The last of the fellows elected under the Founder’s Statutes, Rev. William Carter, died in 1901.

60/5/1 Royal letters 1642 - 1679 /1 John Meredith 18 April 1642 /2 Nicholas Gray 3 July 1660 /3 John Price 3 July 1660 /4 Isaac Barrow 4 July 1660 /5 Dennis Grenvile 6 Oct 1660 /6 Dennis Grenvile 24 Feb 1662 /7 Dennis Grenvile 3 April 1662 /8 Henry Bold 29 Dec 1664 /9 Henry Bold 14 May 1669 /10 Timothy Thirscrosse 17 Feb 1670 /11 Philip Fell 13 May 1670 /12 Thomas Montague 31 Jan 1671 /13 Zachary Cradock 19 Nov 1671 /14 Henry Godolphin 31 July 1674 /15 Stephen Upman 7 July 1675 /16 Stephen Upman 16 April 1677 /17 Richard Martyn 19 Nov 1675 /18 Thomas Bowyer 17 July 1677 /19 Thomas Bowyer 3 July 1679

60/5/2 Letters accepting Fellowships 1814 - 1817 /1 John Grover 6 Feb 1814 /2 John Bird Sumner 18 June 1817

60/5/3 Notarial certificates 1803 - 1868 File of certificates of the admission of Fellows and their swearing of the oaths prescribed by the Statutes (38 items)

21 60/5/4 Eton and King’s College /1 Certified copy of a letter from Charles II ordering that the 26 Nov 1679 decree of Archbishop Laud concerning elections to fellow- ships is to be inviolably observed notwithstanding existing or future letters mandatory /2 Short hints of the case of King’s College in Cambridge [Dec 1685] humbly presented to the Rt. Honble. my Lord Dartmouth (George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth) /2a Letter from William Heneage Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth, to Provost Cecil presenting the above, 8 June 1926 (See also 60/5/11/2)

60/5/5 Copy of Statute 9 concerning the election of Fellows and nd their oaths Endorsed (various hands) : The manner of choosing Fellows into the College. Recommendations to fellowships from the Crown 1642-1679 ending under Provost Meredith

60/5/6 Account [by William Roberts?] of the rights of the Fellows 1734 in the choice of Lower Master and the election of John Sumner to the post 60/5/7 Papers concerning the Appeal of King’s College Cambridge 1814 - 1819 to the Bishop of Lincoln against the holding of livings by Eton Fellows (23 items) Includes Mr. Hay’s Opinion on the legality of dispensations to hold more than one preferment, 1752

60/5/8 Individual appointments /1 Letters and papers concerning the elections of Timothy 1669 Thirscrosse (Thriscrosse) and Henry Bold (9 items) /2 Letter from [Provost Sleech] concerning a dispensation Feb 1750 for Thomas Ashton to hold the living of Sturminster with his fellowship /3 Correspondence of William Cooke and Thomas Ashton 1768 - 1769 concerning possible irregularities in the elections of Eton fellows

60/5/9 Form of oaths on admission of a fellow, as used by George 1838 John Dupuis

60/5/10 Account of Nicholas Grey (1590 – 1660), Fellow 1660 18th cent Endorsed : Acct. of Dr. Grey/Fellow of ye Coll. 1660/ (autograph of Provost Goodall) almost verbatim with the/ Acct. of him in Harwood’s/Catalogue

60/5/11 Copies of documents relating to rights to fellowships nd The writer is not known but the hand is the same as 60/4/8/4. There are some marginal annotations by Provost Goodall

22 60/5/11 cont. /1 Extracts from Tanner Mss., vol. 26, concerning the proposed annexing of a fellowship to the vicarage of Windsor, 1634 /2 Documents relating to the petition of King’s College, Cambridge concerning elections to Eton fellowships, 1679 – 1685 (12 ffs)

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60/6 PROVOST AND FELLOWS (pre-1904)

Introduction

The main records listed in this section are the minutes and papers directly relating to the business of meetings of the Provost and Fellows prior to 1871 and of the College meetings thereafter. These were the meetings of the Provost and Fellows of the old foundation, who continued to meet after 1871 to deal with matters not specifically reserved to the New Governing Body, and in practice dealt with much of the estate administration. Members of the New Governing Body also attended these meetings which came to be held on a quarterly basis. After the death in 1901 of Rev. William Carter, the last of the Fellows appointed under the Founder’s Statutes, the College meetings continued until 1904 when new Statutes were approved.

The registers, lease books and audit rolls or books stand alone as records of the Provost and Fellows’ activities until the early seventeenth century and even then we have to rely on private records. Probably made by the Fellows elected as Bursars, they were found with the seal books and seem in fact to have been regarded as College records. There are no papers as such until those relating to the Cambridge Universities Commission of 1856; the correspondence of the Bursars and Registrars dealt with most of the subjects likely to be raised and no doubt oral reports were made.

The second of the three precedent books listed was clearly much used, and appears in some cases to be an actual record, for example the signed details of the expulsion of scholars. The presence of the first, which appears to have little to do with College, is something of a mystery.

For records of the New Governing Body and of the Provost and Fellows after 1904 see ECR 60/7 and ECR 60/8. Minutes from 1901-1904 are included in printed volumes of minutes at 60/8/1/2.

Many of the papers listed here, including draft and printed minutes, were found scattered between a large number of boxes of miscellaneous papers from different sources which Noel Blakiston had roughly sorted by decade. It was not always possible to decide provenance and when an item could have originated from the College or from the New Governing Body it has been included with the records of the latter.

60/6/1 Minutes 1617 - 1904

If the Provost and Fellows kept systematic minutes of their meetings before 1716 these have not survived. However, various seal books and order books record at least some of their decisions, particularly those relating to the granting of leases, and entries in the order book of 1659/60-1676/7 (60/4/1/2) are often signed by the Fellows. Private records of decisions, again often relating to the estates, have also survived. Ms. 301 is also such a record, containing extracts from the seal books covering 1660-1676 as well as various sermons and other memoranda. From 1811 the Provost signed the record of meetings.

24 60/6/1/1 Seal book 1617 - 1792 viii+365+1ff. Labelled ; Seal Book 1617-1775 f.iii Notes on date of foundation, taken from the notebook 17th cent. of Matthew Hale f.iv Index of Eton and Windsor tenements 18th cent

f.v Note on grant by New Windsor Corporation, 14 April 4 Feb 1734 1686 f.vi Course of cutting the College woods 4 May 1700 f.vi Table of lands and tenements f.viii Rules to be observed in renewing leases f.1 Record by estate of rents, renewals and fines. f.363(v) Preparations of lime, and of cement for cisterns f.364 Ready reckoner

60/6/1/2 Order book 1659/60 - 1676/7 39ff. Vellum ties. On front cover : 1660(11). Very curious- and to be carefully preserved (1853) GJD [George Dupuis, Fellow 1838 - 1868, Vice-Provost 1868 - 1894] Diverse business including sealings. Entries signed by the Fellows. f.39(v) Note on the living of Piddlehinton by Isaac Barrow, Bishop of Sodor & Man (Fellow 1660 - 1669)

60/6/1/3 Order book 1716 - 1758 126ff. Diverse business, including sealings

60/6/1/4 Order book 1758 - 1850 ii + 356pp College arms stamped on both covers. Paginated; pp.324-356 written upside down from back The original covers are separately stored. p.i List of Good Friday preachers in College Chapel and `New Chapel’ (chapel of ease), 1819-1942 p.1 Minutes. Tipped in between pp.310 & 311, two drafts of a petition to Parliament against a railway from London to Bristol p.356 List of Fellows’ duty residences, 1786 – 1792 p.354 Minutes of meetings, mainly concerning repair 1785 - 1826 and alterations, also the living of Creeting p.336 Calculations on allowances for water closets p.328 Copy of agreement concerning entitlement to fines 1823 Agreement to cancel the above in view of the abolition of beneficial leases, 1870 p.327 Agreements on fines to be taken for various leases

60/6/1/5 Seal book 1851 - 1867 364 pp

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60/6/1/6 Minute book 1868 - 1904 442 pp. Indexed. Loose between pp.55 & 56 : minutes of New Governing Body (signed by all members), December 1869-January 1870

60/6/1/7 Minutes (printed) 1893 - 1900 Incomplete but includes duplicates. Some minutes followed by agenda for next meeting

60/6/1/8 Draft minutes (incomplete) 1866 - 1896 Attached is the draft agenda for the meeting of December 1896

60/6/1/9 Agenda (printed) 2 copies 5 Dec 1899

60/6/2 Private records of College business 1671/2 - 1798 60/6/2/1 Rider’s British Merlin ... with notes of husbandry. London, 1672 The blank pages at the end, then at the beginning, contai 1671/2 - 1719 rough notes of sealings, leases granted and fines paid. Various hands

60/6/2/2 Rider’s British Merlin... London, 1719 The blank pages used as above; various hands, the 1718/19 - 1739/40 first the same as the last in 2/2

60/6/2/3 Notebook 1764 - 1780 Record of sealings with running total of fines White vellum cover marked EC 1764

60/6/2/4 Notebook 1780 - 1798 Record of sealings and fines White vellum cover marked 1780 See also Ms. 301

60/6/3 Papers concerning the Cambridge University Commission 1856 - 1869 and the Public Schools Commission The Act of 1856 for the `good government and extension of the University of Cambridge [and] of the Colleges therein’ applied also to Eton and proposals for reforms of King’s College were inevitably of interest to Eton. The Cambridge University Com- missioners made enquiries of Eton that were in many respects similar to those of the Public Schools Commissioners so it is not surprising that papers relating to the questions from Cambridge are found with those dealing with Eton’s response to the Public Schools Commission. Appointed on 18 July 1861 and chaired by Lord Clarendon, this Commission conducted a searching enquiry into Eton and other schools and the result was the Public Schools Act of 1868. The papers here reveal also the debate over the Bill

26 of 1865. An interesting document is the book containing the detailed written answers of Stephen Hawtrey, the Mathematical Master, to the questions circulated by the Commissioners. (See also 60/7/3).

60/6/3/1 Folder of papers relating to the Cambridge University 1856 - 1861 Commissioners, including copies of Bill and Act to Make further Provision for the good Government...of the University of Cambridge, of the Colleges therein, and of the College of ... Eton

60/6/3/2 Printed comments on proposed Statutes of King’s College nd

60/6/3/3 London Gazette 12 Feb 1861

60/6/3/4 Petition of King’s College Cambridge to the Privy Council 20 July 1861 (2 copies)

60/6/3/5 Folders of papers relating to Cambridge University Com- 1856 - 1862 mission and Public Schools Commission /1 Includes draft letters to the Cambridge Commissioners; 1856 - 1861 resolutions of the College on the composition of the Foundation, 1857; tables and specimens of forms issued by the Public Schools Commissioners; statements on accounts /2 Includes correspondence with the Cambridge Commission- 1856 - 1862 ers; Registrar’s draft accounts for preparing answers; appendix to the Report of the Public Schools Commission and Eton College’s Answers; details of accounts

60/6/3/6 Answers supplied by Stephen Hawtrey (1 vol) 1861 - 1862 Includes section of Mathematical School; section of seats and desks; plan and elevation of classrooms; Mathematical report, 1861; arrangement of seats for Trials; seating plan for College Chapel, 25 January 1862

60/6/3/7 Draft answers to the Public Schools Commission’s questions nd

60/6/3/8 Appendix to the answers (fair copy with some amendments) nd

60/6/3/9/1 Answers of Eton College (printed, preceded by ms notes) nd /2 (printed)

60/6/3/10 Minutes of the evidence taken before the Commissioners 1862 (printed with ms amendments)

60/6/3/11 Letters, mainly from the Public Schools Commission to the 1862 - 1863 Registrar, concerning administrative matters and queries on accounts supplied (9 items)

60/6/3/12 Bundle of drafts of letters and additional information sent to 1863

27 60/6/3/12 cont. the Public Schools Commission

60/6/3/13 Considerations touching the Recommendations of the Public Schools Commissioners /1 Winchester College Feb 1865 /2 Eton College March 1865

60/6/3/14 A Bill intituled An Act to make further Provision for the March 1865 good Government and Extension of Public Schools (2 copies)

60/6/3/15 Extracts from the statutes of Eton and King’s College [1865] showing the identity of the character of the two foundations (printed, 2 copies)

60/6//3/16 Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords 1865 on the Public Schools Bill with minutes of evidence

60/6/3/17 A Bill (as amended in Committee) intituled An Act ... 5 June 1865

60/6/3/18 A Bill (as amended by the Select Committee) intituled 22 June 1865 An Act...

60/6/3/19 A Bill intituled An Act to make further Provision for 11 May 1866 the good Government of certain Public Schools

60/6/3/20 Account of Messrs. Hallowes & Carter for work in 1866 connection with the Public Schools Bill

60/6/3/21 The Public Schools Act 1868

60/6/3/22 An Act for amending the Public Schools Act 1869 32 & 33 Vict. c.58

60/6/4 Precedent Books

60/6/4/1 Forest Court Precedents Book 15th cent. i + 18 + i ff. Leaves must be missing between ff.10 and 11 where there is a break in sense and a change from Latin to English. The first part is a recital of charters of rights and liberties within royal forests, the second a formulary of writs and warrants. The volume was noted in Drawer 30 by Thomas Martin. f.1 Claim of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral to tithes within the Forest of Windsor f. 1(v) Claim of the Abbot of Notley to rights of common, liberties etc. in the forest of Bernewode, co. Bucks., and five closes within the forest, 4 Henry VII (1488/9) f. 3 Form of recognisance: two mancupators for Henry

28 60/6/4/1 cont. Langley, 9 August 1488; start of similar bond for Thomas Abbot of Chertsey; claim of the Provost and College; writ of Richard Duke of York confirming the rights and immunities granted to the College by letters patent of 25 February 1445 and 11 November 1452 f. 5 (v) Pleas of the Forest of Clarendon alias Paunsett, co. Dorset, 21 August 1485; claim of Sir Thomas Milborne to free warren and fishery f. 6 Exemplification of claim by the prebendary of Hurstbourne Tarrant in Salisbury Cathedral of rights in the Forest of Andover descended from the Abbess of Tarrant, 9 August 1477 f. 7 Exemplification of the confirmation of William Okeden as keeper for life of the bailiffry of Fritham in the New Forest, 1452/3 f. 8 Pleas; claim of the Abbot of Abingdon within the Forest of Windsor f. 9 Notes on processes f. 11 Articles of interrogation (in English) on the administration of forest law f. 13 Specimens of presentations and warrants f. 18(v) Incomplete Charter of the Forest of Henry III, 1217 English preamble; four clauses begun in Latin then translated

60/6/4/2 `Book of forms’ c.1690 - 1862 White vellum binding, ink title on spine. i + 185 + i ff, 1-38 original foliation and pagination, remainder blank. 2 leaves have been cut out after f.1 and there is duplicate original numbering. References below are therefore to modern (pencil) foliation. Although primarily a book of forms, in many cases actual examples are used and in some cases (eg the nomination of Matthew Tate to the living of Hitcham by John Hawtrey) the entry appears to be an actual record. The records of expulsions of scholars are all signed by the Provost and Fellows and are not recorded elsewhere. f.1 Account of death of Provost Godolphin and election [1733] and institution of Provost Bland f.1v Oath taken by Fellows at election of Provost Hawtrey f.2 Form of marriage licence and bond and executor’s and administrator’s oaths and bonds, used by Provost Godolphin f.3v Form of letters relating to date of Election, dismissal to King’s and summons to Eton f.5 Form of nomination to scholarships at Merton College and Pembroke College, Oxford f.6 Form of testimonial on taking deacon’s or priest’s orders

29 60/6/4/2 cont. f.7-11 Forms of presentation and nomination, testimonials, induction, subscription to 39 Articles, resignation and bishop’s licence. Includes a presentation by Provost Godolphin as Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral f.9 Deputation of stewardship of a College manor (specimen: John Hanson to Henry Legassick for the manors of Modbury, Upton and Penquit, 1703) f.9v Appointment of attorneys by John Peacock 28 Nov 1706 f.10v Nomination of by John Hawtrey of Matthew Tate 14 July 1707 to be Vicar of Burnham f.11v-13 Letters of dismissal for scholars to King’s, Merton and Pembroke Colleges f.12 Resignation of Stephen Weston as Lower Master 8 July 1707 f.12v Citation to Fellows for election of Provost f.13v Presentation to the curacy of St. Helen’s, Isle of Wight; citation to Fellows for election of Provost f.14-17 Record of expulsions and punishments of scholars 1805 - 1862 f.18 Account by John Wilder (Fellow 1840-1885) of the election and installation of Provosts Hawtrey and Goodford f. 39 Form of marriage licence, bond and allegation Loose at rear : a) The form of proceeding when Dr. Bland was made Provost 1733 Endorsed with citation to Fellows, 1781 and note on the election of Dr. Lonsdale, 1840 b) Bond of Robert Clay to the College in £100 to resign the 14 Jan 1608 rectory of Cottisford if he accepts any other preferment c) manner of induction into a benefice d) draft of entry (f.17) relating to the punishment of King’s 21 Oct 1862 Scholars (in two parts) e) draft of entry (f.15v) relating to the punishment of King’s [1820] Scholars f) draft letter from the Registrar to William Hetherington 16 Feb 1749 notifying him of his election as a Fellow

60/6/4/3 Precedents and bequests iv + 22 pages (contemporary pagination, rest blank) In the hands of Provost Roberts and Provost Goodall p.i List of contents by Provost Goodall p.1 Letter to a Fellow on his election p.3 Proceedings on a vacancy in the Provostship pp. 5-22 Extracts from the wills of Anthony Storer, Thomas Evans, Jacob Bryant, Provost Rous, John Henderson, William Berriman, Provost Davies, Thomas Chamberlayne and Edward Betham, with form letters for dismissal of scholars

60/6/5 Letters and orders 1644 – 1652 /1 Request from the Fellows to have liberty to use the 17 Jan 1643/4

30 60/6/5/1 cont. the College seal `as often as wee shalbe constrained to borrow’ At foot of page, agreement in hand of, and signed R.S. (Provost Steward, by this date in exile in France and deprived of his position in the course of this month) He adds : you must by no meanes think of dissolving the Colledge /2 Copies of letters and orders 1596 – 1652 Paper covered volume, now mostly unsewn, and with loose pages interleaved, containing : 1. Letter from the Fellows to Provost Rous on Goldcliff, 12 Feb 1650 Monmouthshire 2. Letter to Sir William Sydley [Sedley] Bt.. d.1656, 1652 concerning the lease of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, 19 August, and Mr.T(h)omkins’ answer, 1 September 3. Letters to Mr. Thomkins and Mrs. Waller on the same 2 Sept 1652 4. Letter to Sir Edmund Fowell on his rent and on the 20 Nov 1650 resolution of the College to renew no leases before they have run for 7 years 5. Warrant from the Commissioners of the county of 21 June 1650 Middlesex to the assessors for Hackney for raising £90,000 per month for 3 months, in which Colleges are exempt from the levy Endorsement noting another copy of a similar warrant for raising £60,000 per month for the next three months 6. Copy warrant from the Commissioners to the Hackney 9 Sept 1650 Assessors for raising £102 18s per month for three months towards the total of £60,000 (loose bifolium) 7. Complaint of the College to the assessors for the army at 16 Sept 1650 Eton that they have been rated above their due proportion Draft, signed by William Russell, Robert Aldridge and John Greene 8. Fair copy of 7 9. Letter to the tenants of Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, 1 Nov 1650 concerning the raising of the rate for payment for sheep due under their leases. Note that similar letters were sent. to tenants of Bloxham, Oxfordshire and Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire 10. Letter to the tenants of Tew Parva, Oxfordshire, concerning 1 Nov 1650 the raising of the rate for payment for sheep and demanding an allowance for 7 men and their horses for 2 days and nights at the last court there (Headed : a coppie of an other letter about Sheepe) 11. Note of cost and value of sheep (Northamptonshire or Ox- [1650] fordshire breeds) delivered to Eton 12. Note that the rents for certain manors and rectories (listed) Nov 1650 were demanded by the two bursars in the presence of Richard Daniell. Signed by Daniell. 13. Order made at Audit 1596 on the determination of the value

31 60/6/5/3 cont. of grain sold Orders made at Audit 1599 on the Bursars’ responsibilities and duties and the entering of bonds in the lease book 14. Orders agreed 9 May 1650 concerning the renewal of leases The last order is incomplete.

60/6/6 The oaths of fidelity, with appointment by William Fleet- 7 Sept 1708 wood, 1656 – 1723, Bishop of St. Asaph, Fellow of Eton, of Robert Wynne as his Vicar-general and Chancellor of the diocese of St. Asaph

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60/7 NEW GOVERNING BODY

Introduction

The New Governing Body was set up by the Provost and Fellows in 1869 under the provisions of the Public Schools Act 1868 (see general introduction to this volume). Although its initial membership included the Provost and four of the existing Fellows it was very much driven by its outside members, particularly in its reforms of the school. Its ten members, also known as Fellows, then included the Provost of King’s College Cambridge, representatives of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, of the Royal Society and of the Lord Chief Justice, and one member elected by the masters, and it was chaired by the Provost. These Fellows were not required to be in orders and they were not resident; they were school governors rather than a religious corporation. The last of the Fellows appointed under the Henry VI Statutes, Rev. William Carter, died in 1901, and with him the old College. It was resolved in 1902 that New Governing Body meetings should be discontinued and that all business should be transacted by meetings of the Provost and Fellows - the same personnel as the New Governing Body but preserving the old name. This was embodied in the Statutes of 1904 and the New Governing Body then ceased to exist. There is some overlap of business into the papers of the post-1904 Provost and Fellows, listed as 60/8, and the minutes from 1901 – 1904 are included in the printed volumes of minutes to be found at 60/8/1/2.

One of the principal duties of the New Governing Body was to draw up new Statutes and also a set of Regulations to reform the running of the school. Their proposals had to be submitted to and approved by the Special Commissioners created by the Public Schools Act to oversee the process of reform. The Commissioners’ role was not that of a rubber stamp and there was considerable discussion and revision, particularly in respect of the role of Fellows. These papers give a good insight into the ideas behind the new Statutes and Regulations and also some of the difficulties encountered in framing them.

60/7/1 Minutes 1869 - 1904

60/7/1/1 Signed minutes /1 Dec 1869 - Oct 1873 /2 Nov 1873 - Feb 1888 /3 May 1888 - Oct 1904

60/7/1/2 Printed minutes 1891 - 1901 Incomplete but includes duplicates

60/7/1/3 Rough minutes 1870 -1901 /1 (1 vol) 1870 - 1872 /2 (1 vol) 1881 - 1882 /3 (1 vol) 1887 - 1888 /4 (1 vol) 1889 - 1901 /5-/13 1884 - 1897 See also 60/8/1/3

33 60/7/2 Agenda and papers The papers forming 60/7/2 were found scattered in a variety of places, many in boxes sorted roughly by decade by Noel Blakiston. Some are marked with the name of W. Carter, the Bursar for much of this period, or of individual Fellows, but since original order had been lost it seemed more sensible to bring them together to form as complete a set as possible. Some duplicates are included. At some stage a selection of papers for the years 1901-1912 was brought together and bound as the first of a still continuing series of Provost and Fellows papers, and this volume should also be consulted (60/8/2/1/1). For ease of access, examiners reports have been separated out as have copies of the Head Master’s letters to the Governing Body. These letters were his formal reports and include applications from masters for pensions or permission to hold extra boys as well as proposals for various reforms. The correspondence of the New Governing Body with the Special Commissioners appointed by the Public Schools Act has also been listed separately as 60/7/3 but there is inevitably some overlap. The papers cover a wide variety of subjects, such as the reform of the school curriculum, the position of non-classical masters, the dismissal of Oscar Browning and sanitation.

60/7/2/1 Agenda 1870 - 1901

60/7/2/2 Papers /1 1869 - 1871 /2 1872 - 1876 /3 1877 - 1890 /4 1891 - 1900 /5 1901 - 1904

60/7/2/3 Head Master’s Letter to New Governing Body 1885 - 1904

60/7//2/4 Report on the examination of the First Hundred 1872 - 1873

60/7/2/5 Reports of examiners of the Oxford & Cambridge Schools 1873 - 1904 Examination Board on the examination of First Hundred and for the Oppidan Exhibition

60/7/2/6 External examiners’ reports on Trials 1879 - 1912

60/7/2/7 Notification from the Oxford University Commissioners 1880 - 1881 of proposed statutes relating to Chamber Postmasterships at Merton College and Rous Scholarships at Pembroke College, with draft reply (3 items)

60/7/3 Public Schools Commissioners

These papers were not found in this form but have been brought together for convenience. In addition to contemporary folders (/2, /3, /5) Blakiston’s boxes contained many loose copies of the Statutes and Regulations, both as proposed and as finally issued, some with mss. alterations. There was also relevant correspondence and other written material. A box marked Public School Acts contained multiple copies of most of

34 the printed material; up to 100 copies of individual items were ordered. The bulk of these have been discarded but examples have been kept and included with the loose material to form as complete a record as possible. (See also 60/6/3).

60/7/3/1 Letters to the Clerk to the Governing Body, acknowledging 1870 - 1874 and commenting on copies of proposed statutes and regulations and on administrative matters

60/7/3/2 `Public Schools Acts 1868 & 1869. R. Cope’ Annotated copies of Public Schools Act 1868 and Public Schools Act (1868) Amendment

60/7/3/3 Folder marked `Public Schools Act 1868’ containing drafts 1868 - 1878 of schemes, regulations and statutes; press cutting from The Daily News, 12 April 1872; Public Schools (Eton College Property) Act 1873; Statutes of Winchester College; Statutes of King’s College Cambridge

60/7/3/4 Regulations, signed and sealed /1 for carrying out the amalgamation of the Upper and Lower 22 Nov 1870 Schools /2 for school examinations

60/7/3/5 Folder containing resolutions, statutes and schemes for the 1870 - 1872 constitution of the College, with Report of Committee on Payments for Maintenance and Education, December 1870; return of bills for Oppidans in Fifth Form; report of committee appointed to see how far any part of the existing Statutes may be wisely retained; report of committees on the state of the School Fund, 1871; views of Special Commissioners

60/7/3/6 Folder marked `Correspondence 1872 - 1876 re New Statutes’ 1872 - 1876

60/7/3/7 Statutes and Regulations, including proposals, amendments 1870 - 1894 and comments from the Special Commissioners and others. Mainly printed. /1 1870 - 1871 /2 1872 - 1876 /3 1877 - 1894

60/7/3/8 Schemes for Improving the Property of Eton College 1870 - 1874 Includes 1870 Scheme (draft and annotated final version); signed and sealed copy of 1873 Scheme; Report from Mr. Yool on the Financial Results of the Scheme for Improving the College Property by running out the Beneficial Leases, April 1873 (printed); certified copy of approval by the Queen in Council of the Scheme of 23 February 1874, 12 May 1874

60/7/3/9 Regulations made by the New Governing Body of Eton 15 Feb 1874 School. Signed and sealed.

35 60/7/3/10 Statutes, Schemes and Regulations made under the Public 1874 Schools Act (printed)

60/7/3/11 Press cuttings on the statutes, the controversy over the 1869 - 1874 circular on fee increases and a court case on entrance fees. Mounted on paper with notes by the Clerk to the Governing Body (2 bifolia)

60/7/4 Nomination by the Lord Chief Justice of George 12 Feb 1873 Kettilby Rickards as his representative on the New Governing Body (2 copies)

60/7/5 Letter book of the Secretary to the New Governing March 1870 - Nov 1871 Body

60/7/6/1 Volume of Acts of Parliament containing : An Act for 1858 – 1875 annexing Conditions to the Appointment of Persons to Offices in the Governing Bodies (7&8 Vict.c.92), 1858; An Act to make further Provision for the good Government and Extension of certain Public Schools (31 & 32 Vict.c.118), 1868; Acts for Amending the Public Schools Act (32 7 33 Vict. c.58; 34 & 35 Vict. c.60; 36 7 37 Vict. c.62), 1869-1873; Statutes, Schemes and Regulations made under The Public Schools Act, 1874; Universities and Colleges Estates Act (21 & 22 Vict. c.44), 1858; Act to extend the Provisions of the Universities and Colleges Estates Act 1858 (23 & 24 Vict. c.59), 1860; The Improvement of Land Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c.114), 1864; Scheme for Eton Parish, reprinted from the London Gazette, 1875 (with ms amendment) /2 As 60/7/6/1 with the addition of Act for the Amendment of the Act of Uniformity 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c.35); Scheme for the Improvement of the Property of Eton College, 1874; The London Gazette, 5 February 1875

60/7/7 Requisitions (523 items) 1900 – 1962 Sealed requisitions of the Governing Body to the College for the sale of land

60/7/8 The London Gazette 22 August 1871 Contains the Statutes made by the New Governing Body on 3 August 1871

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60/8 PROVOST AND FELLOWS (post 1904)

60/8/1 Minutes 1904 - 1963

60/8/1/1 Signed minutes /1 Nov 1904 - Nov 1908 /2 Dec 1908 - July 1913 /3 July 1913 - Nov 1919 /4 Feb 1920 - July 1925 /5 Nov 1925 - Mar 1933 /6 May 1933 – July 1940 /7 July 1940 - Nov 1945 /8 Dec 1945 - Nov 1950 /9 Feb 1951 - Feb 1955 /10 Feb 1955 - July 1959 /11 Oct 1959 - Oct 1963 The series continues.

60/8/1/2 Transactions of the Provost and Fellows 1901 - 1955 Printed minutes of meetings of the New Governing Body, Provost and Fellows, College, and Standing General Purposes Committee, with the Head Master’s Letter. Minutes of other committees, eg Domus, are sometimes included (47 volumes)

60/8/1/3 Index to the Transactions of the Provost and Fellows 1901 - 1920

60/8/2 Agenda and papers 60/8/2/1 Bound volumes The volumes covering the years to about 1951 appear to have been compiled and bound subsequently. They are not comprehensive, and the loose papers (60/8/2/3) should also be checked. /1 1901 - 1912 /2 1913 - 1915, 1919 /3 1920 - 1921 /4 1922 - 1923 /5 1924 - 1926 /6 1927 - 1929 /7 1930 - 1932 /8 1933 - 1935 /9 1936 - 1937 /10 1938 - 1939 /11 1940 - 1941 /12 1942 - 1944 /13 1945 – 1947

37 60/8/2/1 cont. /14 1948 – 1949 /15 1950 - 1951 /16 1952 /17 1953 /18 1954 /19 1955 /20 1956 /21 1957 /22 1958 /23 1959 /24 1960 The series continues.

60/8/2/2 Ghost number

60/8/2/3 Papers, some with annotations . 1904 - 1950 /1 1 vol. (artificial collection of miscellaneous loose 1904 - 1924 items ) /2 Loose 1930 - 1950

60/8/2/4 Reports of the Oxford & Cambridge Schools Examination Board /1 Reports on the examination by Higher Certificate 1905 - 1937 papers of Sixth Form, First Hundred and Specialists (printed, signed ts) /2 Reports on the examination by School Certificate 1906 - 1916 papers of the Fifth Form

60/8/2/5 Examiners’ reports on Trials (printed) 1904 - 1916

60/8/2/6 Reports of Inspections /1 Oxford & Cambridge Schools Examination Board 1905 /2 Oxford & Cambridge Schools Examination Board 1910 /3 1919 /4 Board of Education 1936

60/8/2/7 Petition against proposed abolition of Long Leave : 1907 forms signed by parents

60/8/2/8 Regulations /1 Regulations of the Provost and Fellows for the administration January 1949 of boys’ houses /2 Regulations (4 copies) May 1974

60/8/3 Benefactions For papers on individual benefactions see COLL/BEN

60/8/3/1 Indexed register of benefactions 1941 – 1944

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60/8/3/2 Register of legacies, bequests and gifts reported 1954 – 1961 to the Provost and Fellows Includes summary of leaving scholarships and awards, 1959 and details of other prizes and awards

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60/9 COMMITTEE PAPERS

Introduction In 1871 the New Governing Body appointed a Standing Committee to manage the College’s estates and on 13 May 1873 a further Standing Committee for other Governing Body business. These bodies have left little trace in the minutes and none in the archives. Subsequently other standing committees with more specific remits were appointed and of most of these, though not all, there is at least some archival record, though few working papers have survived. In some cases the minutes might be in the form of a report to the parent body which will be found among its papers. This is also the case with ad hoc committees on particular subjects, although the papers of the important sub-committees that between 1934 and 1935 studied the relations between College and School are included here. The searcher should always check the records of the Provost and Fellows and/or New Governing Body in addition to the committee papers. There were other important committees which were under the control of the Head Master and therefore are not listed here.

No papers earlier than 1890 have survived. A chronological account of committees from that date, giving details of date and remit and the reference of any surviving papers, is followed by the list of documents. The dates of the committee’s existence may of course differ from the dates of surviving papers.

Committee for the Improvement of Buildings 10 February 1891 – 1893 To enquire into the best means of carrying into effect the resolutions of the Governing Body for the improvement of the College Rooms and Building of Examination and Class Rooms (60/9/1)

Buildings Committee 11 February 1896 – July 1901 To report on additions which may be necessary to School buildings and the way in which expenditure can be met (60/9/2) Replaced by Standing Finance and Buildings Committee

Finance Committee July 1897 – May 1899 To confer with the School Fund Committee on the distribution of the Fund. Replaced by Standing Finance Committee

Standing Finance Committee February 1899 – July 1901 (60/9/3) Replaced by Standing Finance and Buildings Committee

Committee to advise the College on the filling of benefices 14 November 1899 – 1911

Executive Sub-Committee of Standing Finance/Standing Finance and Buildings Committee (Executive Committee) March 1900 – May 1911 To supervise College Buildings and grounds, School Buildings, Yards and Playing Fields, Domestic Management of College and Collegers. (60/9/4) Replaced by Domus Sub-Committee

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Standing Finance and Buildings Committee July 1901 – May 1911 (60/9/3) Replaced by Domus Sub-Committee

In May 1911 there was a major reorganisation of the committees and the Fellows appointed three Standing Committees for Education, General Purposes and Church Patronage with sub-committees as necessary. Educational (1911-1955 but last met in 1921) To keep the educational business of the Provost and Fellows, acting in their capacity as Governing Body of the school, distinct from the finance and administration of property (60/9/6) Sub-committee for the award of scholarships tenable after leaving the school Sub-committee for inspection and examination reports

Standing General Purposes (1911 – 1953) Finance, estates, buildings and administration, approval of Bursar’s regular estimates and recurrent expenditure (60/9/5) Sub-committee on School Fund Memorial Buildings Sub-Committee Amalgamated with Domus Committee 1913 (60/9/7/1/1) Domus (1911 – 1954) : took over the duties of the Standing Finance and Buildings Committee and the Executive Committee; became a Standing Committee in 1917 (60/9/7) In November 1913 the Memorial Buildings Sub-Committee was amalgamated with the Domus Sub-Committee. ` For advisory purposes relating to the acceptance and disposal of works of art in the Memorial Buildings the Earl of Plymouth, Mr. Ainger and Mr. Lionel Cust were associated with this Sub-Committee, with a consultative voice only’.

Church Patronage (1911 - )

Sub-Committee on Finance (1934 – 1935) Appointed by the Provost and Fellows (60/9/8)

Weekly Committee (1935 – 1949) In November the Provost reported that he, the Vice-Provost, the Bursar and the Junior Bursar had begun to hold weekly meetings, attended by the Works Manager if required, and that the Head Master was at liberty to consult this committee on any matter. A year later the continuation of this committee was approved (60/9/9)

Resident Committee (1949 - ) Replaced the Weekly Committee

60/9/1 Committee for the Improvement of Buildings /1 Report of Committee (printed) 2 copies March 1887

60/9/2 Buildings Committee /1 Reports 1896 - 1897 /2 Minutes 1897 - 1900 /3 Agenda 1896 – 1900

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60/9/3 Standing Finance Committee; Standing Finance & Buildings Committee /1 Minutes 1898 - 1911 /1 Printed, with duplicates 1898 - 1900 /2 Signed (1 vol) 1900 - 1905 /3 Signed (1 vol) 1905 - 1911 /2 Reports 1898 - 1900 /1 Printed, with duplicates 1898 - 1899 /2 Report bound with minutes : Provost Hornby’s copy 1900 /3 Agenda and papers /1 Agenda and notifications of meetings 1899 /2 Memoranda by Bursar on agenda 1902 - 1910

60/9/4 Executive Committee /1 Minute 1900 - 1910 /1 Signed (1 vol) 1900 - 1910 /2 Printed, with duplicates 1900

60/9/5 General Purposes Committee /1 Minutes 1911 - 1953 /1 Signed (1 vol) Dec 1911 - Feb 1919 /2 Signed (1 vol) March 1919 - July 1925 /3 Signed (1 vol) July 1925 - March 1931 /4 Signed (1 vol) May 1931 - July 1937 /5 Signed (1 vol) Oct 1937 - March 1944 /6 Signed (1 vol) May 1944 - March 1953 These minutes are also printed in the Transactions of the Provost and Fellows (60/8/1/2) /2 Agenda and papers /1 Agenda 1934 - 1948 /2 Papers 1912 - 1950 These papers are mainly Bursar’s Memoranda on the agenda. They are incomplete, but the bound volumes of Provost and Fellows agenda papers (60/8/2/1) include these memoranda. The Head Master’s letters to this Committee are printed in the Transactions of the Provost and Fellows (60/8/1/2)

60/9/6 Standing Committee on Education/Educational Committee /1 Signed minutes (1 vol) 1911 -1921 /2 Agenda and papers /1 Agenda 1911 /2 Correspondence and reports on the curriculum 1909 - 1913 /3 Reports to the Provost & Fellows 1913 - 1915 /4 Report of the Joint School Fund Committee on financing a 13 Feb 1913 Head of the science Department /5 Report of the Sub-committee on the reports of examiners 12 Nov 1914

42 60/9/7 Domus Committee /1 Minutes /1 Minute book : Memorial Buildings Executive and Advisory 1911 - 1944 Committees 1911-1913, Domus thereafter /2 Minutes (incomplete) 1930 - 1940 /2 Agenda and papers /1 Agenda 13 March 1931 /2 Reports and papers, mainly on buildings 1912 - 1914 /3 Papers relating to wages and duties of College staff 1940 - 1941 /3 Correspondence and papers relating to the insurance of the 1912 – 1913 Memorial Buildings, including inventory of contents and inventory of non-book contents of School Library

60/9/8 Sub-committee on Finance This was a Sub-committee appointed by the Provost and Fellows /1 Terms of reference and minutes of first meeting 1 Dec 1934 /2 Papers including reports on estates by Junior Bursar 1934 - 1935 /3 Reports to the Sub-committee 1935 /4 Report and recommendations July 1935 /5 Subsequent papers including report on Eton College Finance 1935 - 1936 and the School Fund account /6 [C. H. K. Marten] : Some Aspects of Eton College Finance. [1934] Sections I - III. Cover annotated by the author : Proof copy with C.H.K.M.’s compliments

60/9/9 Weekly Committee /1 Minutes /1 Signed minutes 1938 - 1950 /2 Minutes 1937 - 1950 /3/1 Index (2 copies) 1937 - 1941 /2 Draft index 1942 See also 60/9/10/1/2 for minutes 1948-1949 /2 Papers (1 file) Includes annual timetable for eg inspections of drains; lists of subscriptions; financial statements; notes on Matron in College; rules of the Eton College Employees Benevolent Fund

60/9/10 Resident Committee This committee is a direct continuation of the Weekly Committee, with the same members. The numbering of the minutes is continuous; the last Weekly Committee meeting took place on 15 November 1949 and the minutes were numbered 452, but no.453 was a Resident Committee meeting 60/9/10/1 Minutes /1 Signed minutes 1950 - 1960 /2 File : Weekly Committee minutes 1948 - 1949 Resident Committee minutes 1949 - 1954 /3 Minutes 1949 - 1960 60/9/10/2 Papers 1950 - 1960 See also Bursar’s and Provosts’ records

43 60/10 KING’S SCHOLARS

Introduction

The Foundation Charter refers to an establishment of twenty-five scholars, increased in the Statutes to seventy. They were to be poor and indigent – though the later stipulation that their personal incomes were not to exceed five marks a year suggests that better-off boys were not excluded – and were not to be sons of villeins or suffering from any serious physical handicap, such as would prevent ordination. A preference was to be given to boys who came from places where Eton and King’s had estates, with a preference for Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire, and `due respect’ was to be given to those who had been choristers at Eton or at King’s. Those born outside England were not eligible. Every year the Provost of King’s and two of its Fellows, known for the purpose as Posers, came over to Eton and with their Eton colleagues examined the scholars at the top of the school, and candidates for admission to Eton, placing their names in order on two rolls. As vacancies occurred during the year the next boy on the appropriate roll was summoned to fill it. Thus a vacancy at King’s removed an Eton scholar and created a vacancy here, filled by the next boy on the Eton roll. Whereas age alone provided a steady turnover among Eton scholars, vacancies were much rarer at King’s, whose complement of 70 members included those who had already obtained degrees. Death and later marriage of fellows were the main causes of vacancy here and there were years in which only two or three of the boys on the King’s roll gained a place there.

Commissioners to reform Cambridge University and its Colleges were appointed in 1856 and the new Statutes of King’s, passed in 1861, altered the College from a body of seventy to one of forty-six Fellows and forty-eight scholars. Twenty-four only of these scholarships were reserved to Etonians (though not until 1873 was an Open Scholarship first offered and a non-Etonian fellow elected) and if no suitable King’s Scholar was found the award was thrown open to Oppidans. Furthermore, all the boys elected to King’s were to go into residence the following October as a matter of course, and the scholarships were opened to all British-born subjects. The new Eton Statutes of 1871 made no mention of any link with King’s or of any geographical preference for candidates with links to either College’s estates or choirs.

These records relate principally to the election of boys to the foundations of Eton and of King’s College Cambridge under the old system, with a few items relating to the scholarships and exhibitions provided for superannuated Eton scholars ie those boys who had reached the age at which they had to leave Eton but for whom there was no vacancy at King’s.

For the original statutes relating to King’s Scholars see ECR 58, and for subsequent alterations 60/1. 60/2 includes papers on scholarships to King’s College. 60/6/3 is informative on the revision of the King’s Statutes as they affected Eton and the papers of the New Governing Body (60/7) include material on the revision of the Eton Statutes, although the question of the scholars caused less difficulty than that of the Fellows. Details on further statute revision, including the definition of British-born, may be found in the files of Provosts and Bursars, and COLL/B5/7 deals with maintenance of the scholars 1901 – 1924. Earlier accounts may be found in the audit books. For correspondence on fee reductions for King’s Scholars see COLL/PG.12.

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60/1 Election rolls 1444 - 1960 The first 10 rolls in this series were listed by Tom Martin in 1724 and endorsed (except for 60/10/1/3) Election Roll, with the regnal year. These are the survivors of a much larger class; clearly the cancelled rolls were not thought worth keeping. J.P. Gilson stamped them ER 1-10. They are parchment, indented at the top or the left hand edge, and beginning with 60/10/1/3 are cancelled according to Statute. The layout is : names of the scholars elected to King’s College, age at the feast day nearest their birthday, county and usually town of birth, repeated for Eton scholars. The later rolls are not indented but have usually been cancelled. They are signed by the Electors or by Fellows. From 1861 they contain the Eton election only.

60/10/1/1 Election roll 26 Sept 1444 /2 31 Aug 1445-1 Sept 1446 (24 Henry VI) The earliest version of the Statutes (Ms.300) allowed elections between 22 August and 15 September. It is therefore impossible to say to which year this roll relates. /3 3 Aug 1453 /4 8 July 1467 /5 27 July 1468 /6 1469 (9 Edw IV) /7 30 July 1470 /8 1 Aug 1474 /9 14 July 1475 /10 4 Aug 1503 /11 1794 /12 1802 /13 1810 /14 1831 /15 1835 /16 1837 /17 1849 /18 1851 /19 1852 /20 1853 /21 1854 /22 1855 /23 1856 /24 1859 /25 1860 /26 1887 /27 1889 /28 1890 /29 1891 /30 1896 /31-93 1898-1960 For 1809 list see 60/10/2/2/1 60/10/1/A Transcript of rolls 1444-1503 c.1930

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60/10/2 Election books 1661 – 1964

60/10/2/1 Fair copies of the rolls in volume form. The layout is standardised, with Eton scholars on the left hand page and King’s College scholars on the right (including boys elected to Eton Scholarships after 1861). From 1667 the name of the scholar vacating the place is written against that of his successor. The entries are in Latin until 1872 and give sur- name, first names, age, birthday, and town and county of birth. From 1802 there are notes on dates of admission and between 1835 and 1860 some biographical notes on the King’s scholars have been added. From 1672 the names of the Posers and Provosts are given. /1 Election book 1661-1853 f.17 Lists of scholars taking oaths according to Statute 6 19 Aug 1676 ff.18-19 Orders and memoranda concerning the bounds and 1666 conduct of scholars /2 1853 - 1963 /3 Duplicate election book 1934 – 1964

60/10/2/2 Miscellaneous election books and lists /1 Volume labelled `Speeches etc’. 19th cent. 1723 - 1933 List of vacancies 1841-1853; form letters for notifying date of Election, vacancies and dismissals; list of fellows and scholars of King’s 1860-1861; election rolls Loose: Richard Spencer’s letter of resignation from his Fellowship at King’s, 5 August 1700 /2 Fair copies and drafts of election lists, including duplicates 1765 - 1860 (55 items) /3 Fair copies of election roll, folded into a book 1816 - 1838 /4 Fair copies of election roll, bound 1823 - 1866 Loose in volume, lists for 1782, 1786, 1787, 1802, 1809, 1878; correspondence between R. A. Austen Leigh and Provost Elliot, 1951 /5 Lower Master’s election lists (5 items) 1844 - 1867

60/10/3 Election certificates 1696 - 1950

The Founder laid down age limits for scholarships, which were also restricted to the legitimate sons, born in England, of English parents. (This restriction on place of birth was removed in 1860). He also specified a preference for boys born in parishes where Eton or King’s held property, then in Buckinghamshire or Cambridgeshire. Candidates therefore were required to provide certificates of their baptism (birth after 1838) and later of parents’ marriage, a declaration signed by a JP and eventually also a testimonial from the master who had taught them for the preceding year. These papers were kept in annual bundles and from 1956 separate bundles were made of the certificates of unsuccessful candidates. However, some certificates were returned to parents, or reused if a boy tried more than once for a place, and others were separated from the main series, often if there was correspondence of a

46 more than trivial nature. If certificates are not found here, 60/10/4/6/2 & 5 should also be checked.

60/10/3/1 Election certificates (13 boxes) 1696 - 1697, 1714 - 1965 (Lacks 1829) 60/10/3/2 Election certificates (10 items) 1697 - 1811 Strays collected by Austen Leigh

60/10/4 Elections

Elections took place annually between 7th July and 15th August. After the date was decided a notice was nailed up on the College gates announcing the forthcoming election. At the appointed time the Provost of King’s, accompanied by two Fellows called Posers, came to Eton and in Election Chamber the previous year’s roll was cancelled, usually by cutting it. The Electors then proceeded to elect a number of boys to fill vacancies that might occur the following year in both foundations and so make a new roll. The Statutes required the Electors to act without taking notice of any outside pressure and certainly the election of Edmund Barber at the instance of Charles II was noted as if it was something exceptional. (6/10/2/1). However, by the nineteenth century the examination was a mere formality, based on prepared books, while the roll for King’s was based on age and seniority. If eligibility was an issue the Visitor might be asked to give a ruling. In 1842 Eton introduced a proper examination and in 1861, following reform of the King’s Statutes, the old system of election to King’s was abolished. The Electors’ role became increasingly limited to approving an order suggested by the examiners, who were chosen from the masters, and in 1961 the choice was delegated to a committee and the physical cancellation of the old roll stopped.

60/10/4/1 Letters from the Provost of King’s College to the Provost 1769 - 1866 of Eton concerning the date of the Election (48 items) The Provost of King’s offered two dates and the Provost of Eton replied selecting one of them. (See also 60/10/6/1)

60/10/4/2 Letters from the Provost of Eton to the Provost of King’s 1753 - 1866 concerning the date of the Election, including form letters and drafts (6 items)

60/10/4/3 Notices of Election (52 items) 1796 - 1861 These are the notices that were nailed to the College gate. One year’s notice has often been amended to serve as draft for the next year’s

60/10/4/4 Election Proceedings (1 vol) 1800 - 1871 According to a note by Provost Goodall the Visitor ordered this book `to be laid on the Table during the whole period of each Election’. It contains copies of correspondence with the Visitor on the interpretation of the Statutes in individual cases and records the decision of the Electors on the subjects for exam- ination and similar matters

47 60/10/4/5 Candidates’ forms, filled in with answers to questions such c.1853 - 1859 as name, age and place of birth (57 items)

60/10/4/6 Correspondence on Elections and related matters /1 Letter from King Charles II ordering the Electors to place 25 June 1674 Edmund Barber KS first on the roll for King’s College /2 Miscellaneous matters concerning Elections (134 items) 1782 - 1881 Includes correspondence on certificates, certificates, notice from Provost to Registrar of times of admission, copy letters to the Visitor, with (/15) 1823 Montem list /3 Correspondence concerning the removal of Robert Sumner 1800 from the indentures for King’s College /4 Correspondence and papers relating to William Thorp (10 items) 1818 /5 Miscellaneous correspondence and certificates (80 items) 1863 – 1869

60/10/4/7 Miscellaneous papers including lists of certificates received; c.1794 - 1870 list of documents required of candidates; scholarships tenable after leaving the school (13 items)

60/10/4/8 Opinion on the title of boys born in Scotland to election n.d.

60/10/4/9 Form of documents required by candidates and regulations n.d. (printed) 2 copies [post 1860]

60/10/5 Scholarship Examination

60/10/5/1 Reports of examiners (Mss) 38 items 1891 - 1934 /2 Administration files 1935 - 1957 Lists of candidates, marks, copies of roll, including lists signed by electors, some examiners’ reports, papers and correspondence (marks only 1953 - 1957) 25 items /3 Number of candidates and vacancies 1894 - 1964

60/10/6 King’s College Cambridge

In 1861 the reformed Statutes at King’s substituted for the original total of 70 scholars and fellows 46 Fellows, 24 Eton scholars and 24 open scholars. Further reforms in 1882 opened the Eton scholarships to Oppidans as well as Collegers. From 1870 the examination was held at Cambridge. The records here relate to both old and new systems. 60/10/6/1 Notifications of vacancies at King’s 1733,1767 - 1862 Letters from the Provost, Vice-Provost or Senior Fellow of King’s to the Provost of Eton. The name of the Eton scholar dismissed is usually noted . The 1811-1821 letters are filed on a string and the1767-1811 letters have a filing hole though they are now loose. Included with /1 are papers relating to John Burford’s appeal to the Visitor against the loss of his fellowship; /14, 154, 162, 166,

48 60/10/6/1 cont. 172, 173, 175, 183 are letters concerning the choice of dates for the Election (see 60/10/4/1). 313 items

60/10/6/2 Notifications from the Provost of King’s of the names 1872 – 1963 of boys elected to Eton Scholarships and Exhibitions (57 items) Mostly original, some copies. 60/10/6/2/37B is an auto- graph letter from the Provost of King’s to Provost Cecil congratulating him on the quality of the candidates, 21 December 1940

60/10/6/3 Notifications to the Provost of King’s of the dismissal 1789 - 1962 of Eton scholars to King’s (39 items) Copies and drafts; /1 and /2 are form letters

60/10/6/4 Resignations of Fellowships at King’s, list of missing 1790 - 1850 resignation letters and draft letter concerning Edward Balston’s fellowship (6 items)

60/10/6/5 Lists of Eton scholars elected to King’s 1781 - 1826 /1 with name of Kingsman causing the vacancy 1781 - 1809 /2 1812 – 1826

60/10/6/6 List of King’s College at Election 1810, with notes of 1810 - 1826 of alterations

60/10/6/7 Petitions of Eton College and King’s College to the Privy 1866 Council in the matter of 19 & 20 Victoria c.88 concerning election to Eton Scholarships (2 items)

60/10/7 Merton College Oxford

John Chambers in his will dated 1604 founded two scholarships at Merton, known as Postmasterships, for scholars superannuated for admission to King’s. The candidates were chosen by the Provosts of Eton and King’s. The items here include notifications of vacancies, letters of nomination from the Provost of King’s and letters of dismissal from Eton, but not all are present in every case. /1 Josiah Lamplugh 1681 /2 John Coplestone (2 items) 1682 /3 Charles Lovell 1685 /4 Philip Sayer (2 items) 1685 /5 John Norris (2 items) 1689 /6 Richard Vernon 1691 /7 Robert Philips 1693 /8 Edward Beckham( 2 items) 1696 /9 Joseph Philips 1698 /10 Richard Gay 1699 /11 Benjamin Holder (2 items) 1704

49 60/10/7 cont. /12 Henry Gardiner 1706 /13 George Wenman 1708 /14 Notification of vacancy 1711 /15 Ditto 1713 /16 Henry James Gore 1833

60/10/8 Pembroke College Oxford Provost Rous founded three exhibitions at Pembroke for superannuated scholars or for undergraduates of less than two years’ standing educated at Eton. /1 Samuel Sandford (letter of dismissal from Eton) 1686 /2 Anthony Lapthorne (nomination) 1695

60/10/9 Exeter College Oxford John Reynolds (Fellow 1734 - 1758) left money for three exhibitions at Exeter for superannuated scholars intending to be ordained. /1 James Cotsford 1759 Annotated by Provost Goodall : No. 1. Old form of a letter recommending an exhibitioner of Mr. Reynolds at Exeter College. A shorter form no.2 is entered by me. /2 Charles Percival Lofft 1825

60/10/10 Rough list of boys in College, with ages, made for census 1841

60/10/11 Cloister Speeches (1 vol) 1843 - 1853 When the visitors from King’s College arrived at Eton they were formally greeted by the Provost under Lupton’s Tower and the Captain of the School delivered a Latin speech in which he reviewed the main events of the year. The last speech was given in 1870. It is not known who collected this group together.

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60/11 ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION

Introduction

The authority of the Archdeacon of Buckingham over the College and parish of Eton was transferred to the Provost, who was also Rector of the parish, in 1443 (ECR 39/27). By this authority the Provost could prove wills and issue marriage licences. Grants of probate appear with other College business in the registers (ECR 60/3) until 1600 when a separate probate register was begun. The last formal registration, in 1666, is again in the main register. However, the presence in a precedent book (60/6/4/1) of executor’s and administrator’s oaths used by Provost Godolphin, who died in 1733, and of stray 18th century wills, suggests that the Provost continued to exercise this jurisdiction and that therefore there may have been another probate register which has not survived. There are virtually no originals wills or inventories surviving. Perhaps they were destroyed on registration because Martin does not mention any in 1724. The precedent book mentioned above also contains forms concerning the grant of marriage licences, and the Provost granted such licences at least until the 1840s. As Rector he was also the recipient of licences issued elsewhere and some of these have survived.

Although the College was freed from archidiaconal supervision it remained subject to episcopal oversight. At the foundation Eton was in the diocese of Lincoln, and the Bishop of Lincoln was therefore appointed the Visitor. In 1845, however, the Archdeaconry of Buckingham (in which Eton was situated, although exempt from the Archdeacon’s jurisdiction) was transferred from Lincoln to Oxford. The then Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, considered that he should relace the Bishop of Lincoln completely and take his place as Visitor. In this he did not succeed, although he did take over certain episcopal functions. (See 60/11/3). In 1875 the parish of Eton was separated from the College and a vicar was appointed, who was subject to the archdeacon’s jurisdiction. The Provost continued to be `ordinary’ of College Chapel which remained exempt. Provost Cecil revived the controversy with the Bishop of Oxford by insisting that as ordinary he had the right to invite any bishop he chose to confirm in College Chapel but after his departure a compromise was reached. Now (2000) the Bishop of Lincoln, as Visitor, carries out one confirmation a year and the Bishops of Oxford and Buckingham alternately the second. (See Etoniana 82).

For records relating to individual livings see COLL/LIV and entries in the Registers.

60/11/1 Probate jurisdiction 60/11/1/1 Probate Register 1600 - 1643

60/11/1/2 Original wills and administrations /1 Will of Matthew Bust, Fellow 19 May 1613 /2 Letters of administration of the estate of Michael nd Morell, glover. Sealed but not signed or dated; temp. Queen Anne /3 Will of John Atlee 2 May 1728 /4 Will of Robert Godwin 19 May 1748

51 60/11/1/2 cont. /5 Draft administration of the estate of Francis [1682] Constable 60/11/1/3 Forms of oath to be taken by an executor and c.1600, c.1700 an administrator, with notes on handwriting by Provost Goodall (2 items)

60/11/2 Marriages

60/11/2/1 Licences granted by the Provost /1 John Brewer & Elizabeth Woodward 30 Jan 1747 /2 Thomas Barrow & Mary Ray 17 Feb 1747 /3 Thomas Bylett & Anne Wyatt 25 June 1756 /4 James Trotman & Anne Briggs 7 Aug 1756 /5 Thomas Love & Susanna Spratley 25 Aug 1756 /6 John Hill & Anne Lawrence 25 Oct 1756 /7 John Overton & Anne White 5 Nov 1756 /8 George Kendall & Anne Uncles 5 Jan 1757 /9 Blank (signed but no names or date) 1840

60/11/2/2/1 Licence to John Attkins jr. & Anne Towns 27 Sept 1755 amended for use as form /2 Licence to Thomas Jones & Sarah Barton 19 Aug 1820 amended as above

60/11/2/3/1 Allegation of William Bacon 31 March 1807 /2 Draft allegation of William Milward 7 Jan 1845

60/11/2/4 Bond of John Prior and Joseph Goodall for the 11 March 1788 marriage of Joseph Goodall and Harriot Arabella Prior

60/11/2/5 Form of allegation and oath required by Provost [1662-1665] Meredith

60/11/2/6 Licences granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury /1 Jeffry Wignall & Martha Ayres 14 July 1739 /2 William Hunt & Susannah Traunter 15 April 1743 /3 Peter Emerson and Ann Harris 8 Jan 1754 /4 Evan Evans & Margaret Reynolds 11 April 1754 /5 Samuel Smith & Prudence Lunn 3 May 1754 /6 Richard Woolhouse & Mary Cranwell 30 Dec 1754 /7 Peter Money & Ann Brown 8 Nov 1755 /8 Edward Hastler & Anne Bushell 30 Sept 1761 /9 Edmund Messenger & Elizabeth How 6 Dec 1764 /10 Richard Slade & Annabella Goodenough 24 April 1766 /11 John Tollett & Elizabeth Reay 21 July 1768 /12 John Cranwell & Constantia Cooper 16 Aug 1768 /13 William Harris & Elizabeth Palmer 14 June 1771 /14 Edward Knott & Elizabeth Phipps 23 June 1772

52 60/11/2/6 cont. /15 Philip Beauchamp & Ann Capron Harding 7 Oct 1772 /16 Samuel Clarke & Elizabeth Griffinhoofe 31 Jan 1799

60/11/3 Episcopal jurisdiction

60/11/3/1 Draft petition to the Queen in Council on the Ecclesiastical 1844 - 1846 Courts Bill with printed Appendix to the case on behalf of the petitioners, and related papers (5 items)

60/11/3/2 Case papers and correspondence on the jurisdiction of 1845 - 1847, of the Bishop of Oxford as ordinary and Visitor (1 file) 1943 - 1944

60/11/3/3 Papers and opinions on the above 1943 - 1944

60/11/3/4 Opinion of Chancellor Macmorran with note by Provost 1943 - 1944 Cecil

60/11/4 Livings

The disposal of livings was a matter of deep interest to the Fellows, who claimed a dispensation from Queen Elizabeth allowing a living to be held in conjunction with a Fellowship, in spite of the express prohibition of the Founder. In 1766 a regular system was set up and the first of these volumes records the agreement of the Fellows to it. All vacant livings were to be offered first to the Provost then to the Fellows in order of seniority, for their personal use. No Fellow could hold more than one College living at a time, and if he wished for the new living he would have to resign the old. Any not claimed were offered as a `first friendly option’ to the senior Fellow not to have used such an option, then as a `second friendly option’. Fellows thus had a certain amount of individual patronage at their disposal, though the Provost took first and fifth turns in rotation in each class of friendly option. If a living was still not filled, the College as a whole decided who to present. The first book records various signed resolutions of the Fellows amending this system, including an indignant protest in 1781 against the Provost always having first personal choice.

Conducts who had served eight years were entitled to the first vacant living no Fellow wanted as his personal option, with the exception of certain of the wealthier livings such as Burnham and Worplesdon. Adjustments were made to this list from time to time.

60/11/4/1 Option Books /1 `Option Book 1766’ pp.1-12 Agreements for the disposal of livings, signed 1766 - 1868 by the Fellows. Annotations by Provost Goodall. pp.20-21 Personal options 1749 - 1878 pp.22-34 First Friendly Options 1766 - 1889 pp.52-57 Second Friendly Options 1768 - 1864 p. 67 Nominations to Docking by Bishop of Norwich 1708 - 1829 p. 69 Nominations to Leominster and Climping by 1701 - 1879

53 60/11/4/1/1 cont. Bishop of Chichester p. 71 Nominations to Lyminster by Brasenose 1873 College, Oxford pp.126-128 Given by the College (p.127 marked `void’) 1798 – 1870 p.129 Nominations to Cogges and to St. Helen’s, Isle 1814 – 1872 of Wight Provost Goodall began many of the lists of nominations and also of the livings disposed of by option, presumably extracting this information from the registers up to his time.

60/11/4/1/2 `Option Book WR’ WR is William Roberts, Fellow 1786-1833, and Vice-Provost 1818 - 1833. He also served as Bursar and several volumes in the archives bear witness to his endeavours to consolidate information about the College’s possessions. f.1 List of patronage, with value of living, name of incumbent and date of his presentation. These dates cover 1789-1831, with entries from 1809 in Provost Goodall’s hand, but the original list seems to have been written c.1794 and alterations made as needed ff.2-9 Details of individual livings, including house, 1799 glebe, payments etc. Later alterations. ff.9v-13 Methods of disposal (apparently copied from /1) ff.17v-19 Friendly options ff.21-22 Presentations of conducts 1772 - 1831 f.35 Sketch plan of Christchurch Vicarage and [1826] elevation of stable, coach house and sheds f.36 Sketch plan and elevation of Holford Parsonage nd

Loose in the book: 60/11/4/1/2a Letter from J. Davies [Provost Davies] to [William 20 Oct 1801 [Roberts]. Silvester does not expect the Mill to be finished in under three weeks. Describes illuminations in London; ‘ I hope Vaughan did it handsome at the Lodge. I suggested the hint to Dr. Heath of lighting up the Upper School, which I suppose had a good effect’. His ill health; obliged to take `aether and opium’ - describes their effect. /2b Letter from J. Davies [Provost Davies] to [William 31 Oct 1801 Roberts]. Health of various acquaintances. Tried to go without taking anything `but it would not do’. Not likely to be able to do his duty in his approaching residence [at Eton] and particularly concerned that it may coincide with the Thanksgiving for the Peace. Will come at Founder’s Day. Totally unfit for composing sermon for Thanksgiving.

54 60/11/4/2 Surveys of livings 1799 - 1946 /1 Account of College livings c.1803 - 1815 (Livings to which the College presented on the nomination of others are not included). f.1 List of livings and incumbents : dates of presentation 1768 – 1803 ff.2-9 Value and circumstances of the College preferment ff.9v-10 System of disposal by options f.11 Provision for conducts ff.16v-21 Entries reversed from back of book f.21v Donations to the parish of Eton f.20v Copy of letter from Mr. Huggett, Conduct, to the Registrar of the General Hospital, Bath in favour of Simon Bathe and explaining why Eton has no church- wardens, 11 November 1761 f.19v Benefactions to the parish of Eton,1612-1802 /2 Account of College livings c.1799 - 1832 A volume in a variety of hands, that of Provost Goodall prominent. The basis of entries appears to be copies of /1 but considerable extra information has been added at various dates, including more detailed accounts of the income, glebe, house, population in 1821 and 1831 etc. /3 Livings in the patronage of the College, with names 1854 and addresses of incumbents /4 Memorandum of College livings by Provost Marten 1946 List of patronage disposed of; chancels insured; livings still held with details of income /5 Livings in the gift of the College with values in the nd King’s Book

60/11/4/3 Register of applications for vacant livings, with 1909 - 1916 notes on applicants Loose letters from applicants included (20 items) 1913 - 1919

60/11/4/4 Opinion as to the right of the Crown to present to a 1844 a living vacant by the incumbent being made a bishop

60/11/4/5 Copy form of presentation to a rectory or vicarage nd

60/11/4/6 Copy of a clause in the will of Mr. Newborough nd (presumably John Newborough, Head Master 1689 – 1711, d.1712) bequeathing £1000 for the augmentation of two vicarages each worth £40 per year Note that this was reduced by a codicil to £30

55 60/12 ESTATES

The records of the College’s estate administration include not only detailed information on individual estates but also central records concerned with all estates. It is the latter that are included here. The records of the bursar, registrar, junior bursar and estates manager, of the College’s legal advisers and of the earlier ECR volumes and their continuation, COLL/EST/, should be consulted for particular places. Granting leases was a major part of College business and remains a function of the Provost and Fellows, so can be traced in their minutes (see 60/6) and summaries of estate receipts and expenditure are to be found in the audit books (ECR 62).

60/12/1 Charter books There is no indication why in 1590-1591 (in which year the scrivener was paid `to write out the wordes of the charters’) the College suddenly felt the need to enrol eighteen letters patent, or why these particular ones were chosen. The inclusion of four episcopal acta is also unexplained. Perhaps the convenience of a book as opposed to large documents with several membranes or increasing difficulty with early script were factors. With two exceptions, the confirmations by Henry VIII and Edward VI of all previous charters, the originals survive, though it is interesting to note that the Endowment Charter appears to have been transcribed from the Inspeximus not the original, suggesting this was already lost. Martin does not mention the Henry and Edward charters which had presumably therefore disappeared by 1724. 60/12/1/1 Charter Book [1590-1591] Strips of a 14th century concordance were used in the binding of this volume, which can be dated to 1602-1603. There are many memoranda and marginalia. Contemporary foliation. f.1 Foundation Charter, 11 October 1440 (39/3) f.3 Inspeximus of Foundation and Endowment Charters (39/8) omitting inspeximus clause, 25 January 1442 f.10 Consolidation Charter, 5 March 1446 (39/57) f.27 Grant of Monk Sherborne Priory, 2 September 1446 (39/67) f.28 Grant of Deerhurst Priory, 10 November 1446 (39/70) f.28 Release of Banstead Manor and Walton-on-the –Hill church, Charlwood, 18 September 1449 (39/96) f.29 Grant of St. James’s Hospital, 30 October 1449 (39/100) f.29 Grant of manors of East Povington, Chisenbury and Quarley, with estates in Dorset and Hampshire, 22 June 1451 (2/132) f.30 Grant of alien priories of Begger and Cowick, 20 July 1452 (39/105) f.31 Grant of farms and rent from Le Lambe, Distaff Lane, London, 3 February 1453 (16/Misc/3) f.31 Grant of farm and reversion of Upavon rectory with the chapel of Charlton, 9 February 1459 (39/114) f.31 Grant of St. John’s Hospital, Dorchester and other estates, 17 July 1467 (39/1/29) f.33 Confirmation of grant of the Wharf and Crane in Vintry, London, 11 May 1475 (16/Vintry/3) f.33v Grant of Hornedweir in the Thames near Windsor and various fines and exemptions, with confirmation of all previous charters issued by Henry VI and Edward IV, 30 April 1507 (39/149)

56 60/12/1/1 cont. f.37 Confirmation of the above, 5 March 1510 Confirmation of the above, 7 May 1548 f.37v Grant of Baldwin’s manor and other estates in return for St. James’s Hospital, 26 December 1531 (39/158) f.41 Agreement between Henry VIII and the College on the exchange of St. James’s Hospital, 5 September 1531 f.45 Indenture concerning the above exchange, 1 June 1547 (14/1) f.52 Grant of advowsons and augmentation of livings involved in the exchange, 30 August 1547 (39/162) f.59-60 Episcopal acta f.59 Minster Lovell : maintenance of church and services, and ownership of vicarage. Attested after inspection of acta of 1209 (2/129) Sturminster Marshall : great tithes confirmed to the Hospital of St. Gilles, Pont-Audemer; inspeximus of presentation to the vicarage on 15 October 1207, 31 December 1219 (2/578/1) Oakley and Clapham : inspeximus of a composition of tithes made 2 December 1296, 3 February 1580 (57/74-79) f.60 Modbury : confirmation of tithes, 16 September 1269 (1/14, 1/32) f.60 Goldcliff : composition between the Prior and the perpetual vicar, 2 October 1428 (64/7) On the back flyleaf, notes and memoranda on the exemption of College servants from serving as Constables and from attendance at the Court Leet, following the election of the Under Butler as Constable in 1635

60/12/1/2 Charter Book Translations late 17th cent. Title : Early translations of the charters etc of Henry VI to Eton College . Marginal notes, 17th-20th century but mostly in Provost Goodall’s hand. Loose list of contents in the hand of Provost James and tipped-in index to place names in the hand of H. B. Dyke. i + 224pp

60/12/1/3 Translation of the Consolidation Charter late 19th cent. Marginal notes.

60/12/2 Evidence Books

In 1577 - 8 the audit book records a payment of £13 6s 8d to the auditor, Thomas Daye, `for wrytinge and extractinge the College evidences’. The result of his labours is almost certainly the three volumes titled A, B and C (60/12/2/1-3); they may have been bound later but the pagination is continuous. They contain abstracts of deeds and other documents from the eleventh to sixteenth centuries, arranged by estate and within each estate roughly chronologically. An abstract of each document has been written on a strip of paper and the slips then pasted in or occasionally guarded. The text is secretary hand but the indices italic. Some pages have been lettered and numbered in sequence at the foot of the page but no index relating to this numbering has survived.

57 These books are mentioned by Tom Martin but the fourth item is not although its entries suggest a late 17th century compilation date. Its detail suggests that it was more of a personal aide-memoire compiled by a Fellow and subsequently left in the archives; the hand has not been identified, however. The contemporary `4’ on its cover suggests that the compiler saw it as a continuation of the existing books.

60/12/2/1 Evidence Book A [1577 - 1578] p.v Index to customaries, rentals, terriers and taxation p.vii A generall table p.xxv Index to estates in Volume A p.95 Customary of the Lordship of Eton p.113 Manors, priories and other possessions given by King Henry VIth unto the Eton College and now witholden (cf.47/83) p.117 Taxation of spiritual and temporal possessions p.171 Ditto p.212 Loose : bifolium on the pension of Farleigh and Folkestone, with calculations. Very rough hand, rather later than main text pp.319, 327 Customaries of the manor of Weedon Bec

60/12/2/2 Evidence Book B [1577 - 1578] (pp.461-894) p.ix Index to estates in Volume B p.359 The landes that be witholden by the Lorde Wyndesore belonging to the manor of Blakenham

60/12/2/3 Evidence Book C [1577 - 1578] p.iv Index to estates in Volume C

60/12/2/4 Evidence Book [late 17th cent] Contemporary foliation, 63ff A summary by estate of leases granted from the acquisition of the property until the reign of James I with a few entries up to 30 Charles II (1678/9). The writer usually adds ` and so it continues’ or a similar formula, with notes on rents, profits and other points of interest. King James is referred to without a number, suggesting a date pre-1685. Mostly in one hand, with subsequent additions (mostly relating to earlier dates) in a later.

60/12/3 Lease Books

Until 1457 a single book was used to record all instruments issued under the College seal and also significant letters received. In 1457 a separate register was started for more formal documents and the existing volume was used mainly for matters to do with land, although an overlap continued for some time and the volume remained something of a hybrid. When the early lease books were numbered at the time they were rebound in the early eighteenth century it was treated as the first of them and numbered 1. I have preferred to classify it as a register (60/3/1) so the lease books

58 proper therefore start their numbering at 2. (I have continued to number in this sequence for ease of reference). Generally speaking leases, conveyances, licences to alienate or sublet, deputations of stewards and similar matters will be found only in the lease books after 1457 although register material, at least until the end of the fifteenth century, may be in either series. Even after that date if an expected item cannot be found it is always worth checking the registers.The original covers of the rebound volumes now form flyleaves or paste-downs and were often used for a variety of jottings and scribblings which have not been separately noted. The dates on the spine labels are not always correct, possibly due to the binder taking the date of the summary heading of the first or last document, which is usually that of the date the lease began rather than the date of the document itself (eg 60/12/3/6 f.298).

Items are generally enrolled in chronological order though in early volumes the sequence may be broken because the writer wanted to fill a space at the foot of a page. All volumes listed here have contemporary indexes but these should be used with some caution. There may be inaccuracies of date or spelling and in some cases the Arabic foliation has been misread. Also, items crossed out or marked `vacat’ in the text are not always cancelled in the index. From 60/12/3/3 onwards a rudimentary classification of types of document is used. From the 1730s the entries are signed by Fellows, intermittently at first then regularly. At first there are three signatories but increasingly only two, of whom the Provost is one, and finally the Provost alone. From 1892 plan tracings are inserted and in 60/3/28 the manuscript entry is occasionally replaced by a typed or printed copy pasted in. This gradually becomes the standard practice.

A separate series of lease books for properties on the Chalcots estate was started in 1859 but from 1892 Chalcots leases again appear in the main series. It appears that leases were no longer enrolled from the mid-1970s.

60/12/3/1 Lease Book 2 1529 - 1556, 1560, 1593 Pastedown : notes of Provosts; appointment of Thomas Cromwell as High Steward, 24 November 1537; acreage of eight estates; exchange between the College and Henry VIII Title on flyleaf : The Register of the Demyses. At page foot, list of tenants in Shaftesbury.

Four leaves have been inserted at the end of the main text : f.179 Memorandum of the payment of a pension of £4 pa to William Hanley for acting as auditor to the College lands, 6 May 1560 f.180 Index f.181v Mr.Provost’s accompte. Stipend etc, including servants’ wages f.182v Will of Richard Fuller, 7 November 1539

60/12/3/2 Lease Book 3 1545, 1556 - 1590 Flyleaf : grant from Henry VIII to Anthony Busterd of wheat and rye formerly belonging to the monastery of Godstow, the farm of the rectory of Bloxham and the tithes of Milcomb, 26 August 1545 f.23 List of rents to be collected at Maidenhead [1558] f.186v Customs of the manor of Weedon Bec and extract from court roll, 4 August 1547

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60/12/3/3 Lease Book 4 1590 - 1626, 1629 f.202v Letters of attorney, 1629

60/12/3/4 Lease Book 5 1627 - 1652 f.224v Memorandum of order of the Provost and Fellows that the old lease should be read over before a new one is granted, 20 October 1641

60/12/3/5 Lease Book 6 1652 - 1670, 1680 f.293v Lease of Creeting, 30 December 1680 The immediately preceding lease is also of Creeting, with a note that it was renewed in 1680

60/12/3/6 Lease Book 7 1671 - 1693, 1696/7 Additional entries are entered reversed from the rear. f.278 Appointment of Thomas Hayward as Bailiff of Weedon Bec, 22 March 1696/7

60/12/3/7 Lease Book 8 1693 - 1709

60/12/3/8 Lease Book 9 1708 - 1721

60/12/3/9 Lease Book 10 1721 - 1733

60/12/3/10 Lease Book 11 1733 - 1744

60/12/3/11 Lease Book 12 1744 - 1759

60/12/3/12 Lease Book 13 1758 - 1770

60/12/3/13 Lease Book 14 1770 - 1780

60/12/3/14 Lease Book 15 1780 - 1791

60/12/3/15 Lease Book 16 1791 - 1802

60/12/3/16 Lease Book 17 1802 - 1814

60/12/3/17 Lease Book 18 1814 - 1825

60/12/3/18 Lease Book 19 1825 - 1834

60/12/3/19 Lease Book 20 1834 - 1841, 1849 p.545 A lease of Burnham Wood to Sir Gore Ouseley, 10 December 1841, has been amended as a draft for another, 1849

60/12/3/20 Lease Book 21 1841 - 1847

60/12/3/21 Lease Book 22 1847 - 1850

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60/12/3/22 Lease Book 23 1850 - 1854

60/12/3/23 Lease Book 24 1854 - 1859

60/12/3/24 Lease Book 25 1859 - 1866

60/12/3/25 Lease Book 26 1866 - 1873

60/12/3/26 Lease Book 27 1874 - 1891

60/12/3/27 Lease Book 28 1892 - 1912

60/12/3/28 Lease Book 29 1912 - 1923

60/12/3/29 Lease Book 30 1923 - 1935

60/12/3/30 Lease Book 31 1935 - 1944

60/12/3/31 Lease Book 32 1944 - 1954

60/12/3/32 Lease Book 33 1954 - 1959

60/12/3/33 Lease Book 34 1959 - 1964

60/12/3/34 Lease Book 35 1965 - 1976 This book has been divided for conservation reasons: /1 1965 - 1970 /2 1970 - 1974 /3 1974 - 1976

60/12/4 Chalcots Estate

For the early history of this estate, which belonged to the Hospital of St. James, Westminster but was retained when the College was compelled to surrender the main estate to Henry VIII see ECR 39 and ECR 16. Development began in the 1820s but at a leisurely pace and until 1859 the Chalcots building leases were included in the ordinary lease books. A separate series for Chalcots leases alone was then started but discontinued in 1897. Other series relating to Chalcots were also created centrally and are listed here.

60/12/4/1 Chalcots Lease Rolls 1836 - c.1987 These rolls are arranged by lease number, and the first two volumes each contain a plan of the estate showing which plots relate to which lease. Each double page spread shows details of the original lease, such as lessee, address, term and rent, and assignments or other disposal. The leases were generally for 99 years, so assignments may be dated as late as the 1980s. (Only the start date of the volume is given here). In addition a ground plan of the site and an elevation are included.

61 The second and part of the third volume duplicate the first but the information they contain on assignments is much fuller and continues into this century. It is not clear why the first volume fell out of use; /2 onwards were used in the Estates Office until the sale of the estate and it may be that /1 was meant to be a duplicate but it was found unnecessary to maintain it so it was just left in the strong room. The final volume contains leases made in the 1960s after redevelopment of parts of the estate. 60/12/4/1/1 Titled : Chalcots Estate Leases No.1 1836 - 1850 At rear of volume, a folded plan of the estate in 1852, showing plot numbers 1 to 174. The folio numbers correspond to the plot numbers. /2 Titled : Eton College I. Plan Book. 1836-c. 1970 Also contains an estate plan, dated 1850, with subsequent amendments. Leases 1-163 /3 Leases 164-326 1859 /4 Leases 327-495 Titled : Volume 3 1868 /5 Leases 496-663 Titled : Volume 4 1874 /6 Leases 664-833 Titled : Eton College Lease Roll Vol.5 1880 /7 Leases 834-975 Titled : Eton College Lease Roll Vol.6 1887 /8 Leases CR1-CR210, 211-336 Titled : Eton College Lease 1967 Roll No. 7

60/12/4/2 Chalcots Lease Books 1859 -1897 These volumes contain registered copies of leases and /2 and /3 also contain copies of other instruments, including mortgages of the estate. /1 Chalcots Lease Book 1 1859 - 1865 Indexed by lessee. For each lessee a column spread of roads shows which houses he holds. /2 Chalcots Lease Book 2 1865 - 1880 /3 Chalcots Lease Book 3 1880 - 1897

60/12/4/3 Chalcots Leases 1865 - 1911 These are the original leases, printed with the details filled in by hand. Most have been signed by the Provost and two Fellows or by the Provost alone. The loose leases (/3) have been arranged in date order as most are un-numbered /1 1 volume. Contains cadastral numbers 242-536 but not in 1865 - 1875 sequence; the numbers have been added in pencil in a mid- 20th century hand /2 1 volume. Cadastral numbers 537-780 1876 - 1884 /3 Loose 1884 - 1911

60/12/4/4 Plans and elevations 1863 - 1943 . Copies of the site plans and elevations, arranged by cadastral number. /1 Nos.194-456 Indexed by lessee 1863 - 1871 /2 Nos. 457-621 (lacks 602-615) Indexed by lessee 1873 - 1878 /3 Nos. 603-615 (out of order) then un-numbered. Indexed by 1878 - 1883 lessee

62 60/12/4/4 cont. /4 Indexed by lessee. 1883 - 1901 / 5 Indexed by road 1902 - 1943

60/12/5 Surveys, rentals and terriers

The items listed here are general surveys of all, or a major part of, the College’s holdings. For surveys of individual estates, see the papers relating to that estate.

60/12/5/1/1 List of grants made by Henry VI and letters patent and of 15th cent estates confirmed by Edward IV. Endorsed by Tom Martin : A list of ye estates granted by KH6 in his first and 2 charters /1/2 Rental, incomplete (2 membranes) 15th cent /1/3 Rental of Cogges, Fringford, Minster Lovell and extent of Dec 1456 Leighton Buzzard (1 membrane, much damaged) /1/4 Account of rents and pensions in the time of Provost Lupton 153-

60/12/5/2 Survey Book 1552 - 1619 Labelled : Survey Book Edw. VI, Phil. et Maria. The sections are marked with vellum tags. ff.1-35 appear to be in the same hand though only the first section is dated and ff. 41 onwards also appear to be in the same hand f.iii Note of contents, May 1700 Note on land in Ditton, transcribed by Edward Betham (Bursar 1772-1777) f.iii (v) Attested memorandum that no alteration was made to the volume while it was in the custody of John Craske, 23 Sept 1708 f.1 Surveys and rentals of Windsor, Eton, Langley, March 1552 Sutton (parish of Iver), Rudesworth, Ditton with Datchet, Maidenhead, Burnham, Hedgerley, Stoke and Stowe f.4 (tipped in) Abuttals of the lands of St. Peter’s Hospital in North Field, New Windsor f.29 Terrier of lands in Hitchenden, Wycombe, Chalvey, Poughley and Sutton f.36 Survey of The Queen’s Arms, Westminster 7 Sept 1619 f.37 Survey of The Bear, Cheapside 26 Oct 1617 f.41 Rental and survey of Westminster and London 1551 - 1552 tenements f.44 Terrier and rental of the manors of Blakenham, Suffolk and Creeting, Suffolk f.68 Rental of Piddlehinton and Charlton Parva, Dorset; 1555 - 1556 Hanging Langford, Wilts; Penquit and Upton and Mod- bury, Devon; Hullavington, Wilts; Creeting, Suffolk

60/12/5/3 Rental c.1640 Paper-covered volume labelled in 18th cent. hand : Old Rentals.. Previous label visible : Old Rentalls

63 60/12/5/3 cont. Title : Rentall of All ye Colledge lands of ye Blessed Mary of Eton ... and ye Date of ye Severall Leases of ye Mannors and Lands of the Said College. Arranged by county.

60/12/5/4 Alphabetical list of all estates, with date of last lease, number of c.1719 years and fine. Apart from the Crane in Vintry, 1660, all the leases were made between 1709 and 1718

60/12/5/5 `View of College Estates in general. Dr.B’ c.1736 Rough list by county, in one hand, with notes and alterations, showing date of last lease, tenant’s name, rent and improved rent

60/12/5/6 Sleech’s Rental c.1730 - 1791 This volume is named for Stephen Sleech (Fellow 1729- 1746, Provost 1746 - 1765) as many entries are in his hand pp.5 - 229 contemporary pagination (pp.1& 2 now used as paste-down). Followed by appendix of 3pp, separately numbered. On front board : (1); S.1778 On back board : King’s College Cambridge (20th cent pencil) On spine, upside down : King’s Camb Eton (20th cent pencil) p.1 Miscellaneous notes on Statutes, registers and audit books; extracts from the House of Commons Journal and Harl. Misc. 791 on the visitation of 1561 and the appointment of Provost Rous; notes on charters and gifts of Henry VI and Edward IV p.11 Index p.17 Lands mentioned in ye auditt book 6 of Henry 8 p.18 Note on cost of top storey of the Cloisters, 1761 p.19 Notes on the first register p.20 Notes on archives used in compilation of this volume p.21 Rental, alphabetically by estate. Notes on renewals, fines, history and valuations A survey of Summerfield (Southmere, Norfolk) 1764, is inserted at p.83 p.202 Livings p.221 List of former College livings p.222 Taxation possessionum... by diocese Appendix p.1 Notes on Modbury rent and tithes p.233 Note on manors in Eton Reversed from rear : p.1 Estimates of rectories, manors and tenements belonging c.1690 to King’s College Cambridge p.21 Leases renewed in Eton College 1746 p.23 Leases sealed in Eton College 1748

60/12/5/7 Roberts’ Rental 1755 - 1815 This volume is mainly in the hand of William Hayward Roberts (Provost 1781-1791). He was elected Bursar in

64 60/12/5/7 cont. 1772, and appears to have compiled the volume around that date. There are some later additions and notes of sales Contemporary title : College Estates f.1 Account of Register’s [Registrar’s] profits, with note on the profits of individual manors f.2 Index to estates f.4v Index to Windsor tenements f.5 Index to Eton tenements f.6 Individual estates Gives rents, fines, extracts from leases and notes (often extensive) on covenants, disputes, re- valuations etc. Some summaries of pre-1760 entries in `the old Seal Book’ f.84 Tables of land tax, sales, reserved rents f.86v Account of fines for renewal of leases f.90 (reversed from rear) List of 7 and 14 year fines

60/12/5/8 Leases renewed (1 vol) 1812 – 1865 Note of fine paid and length of lease

60/12/5/9 Survey Books 1767 - 1821 /1 Titled : No.1 1767 - 1805 Transcripts of surveys and valuations made 1767-1799, with index showing date of survey and surveyor. Includes some later notes on renewals /2 Titled : Survey of Estates 1799 and onwards 1767 - 1821 Duplicates of valuations in /1 but with alterations and sub- sequent surveys.

60/12/5/10 Mr. Palmer’s Valuations 1774 - 1777 These appear to be the source of the valuations transcribed in 60/12/5/8. There must have been other volumes, now missing. /1 East Wretham, Blakenham Magna, Chattisham, Hintlesham 1774 and Creeting St. Mary Note on cover : To be delivered to Mr. Sleech. E.B. Dec 1780 /2 Goldcliff, Nash and Christchurch, Stogursey, Modbury, 1775 Piddlehinton, Charlton Parva, Sturminster Marshall, Bledlow, Merwents (High Wycombe) and Aldiff (High Wycombe) /3 Ellingham, Cogges, Minster Lovell, Astall & Astally, Fulbrook, 1776 Bloxham & Milcomb, Cottisford & Fringford /4 Newington cum Flack, Baldwins, Climping Rectory, Leominster 1777 Rectory, Rudsworth, Maidenhead cum membris, Lewins in Cippenham, Sawyers in Hitchenden, Meos Lands (Datchet and Ditton), Woodmancoates (Cookham and Bray), Powleys [Poughleys] Farm (Stoke), La Spittle, La Worth, land in Eton leased to Mrs. Mary Woolhouse, Mr. John Pocock and Mr. Samuel Smith, The Rose and The Swan (Burnham) Loose : land in West Field held by Mr. Dan Marsh, 18 March 1777

65 60/12/5/10/5 Notebook, marked Farnham Woods on spine, Bucks. on 1775 – 1800 upper fore-edge. Note on Farnham Woods by John Trumper, with details of timber produced 1797 – 1800; detailed notes and valuation by Edward Palmer of Bledlow, 1775; description of visit to Bledlow by John Trumper and Mr. Barber, 1797, with plan; notes by Trumper on Christopher lands, 1800, the Rose in Burnham, 1799 and Hughenden, 1799

60/12/5/11 Terrier transcripts [c.1775] These two volumes are in the same type of notebook with the same title hand as 60/12/5/9. The hand is the same in both, though not the same as that of /9. Valuations are not given. /1 Newington cum Flack, 1767; Baldwins, 1728, [1629]; Climping Vicarage, [1683] with letters on tithes on Baileys Court, 1682, and on the parish generally, 1774; Leominster Rectory, 1767 /2 Woodmancoats (Cookham), 1676; Rudsworth (Stanwell), 1727, 1767; Maidenhead cum membris,1705; Lewins in Cippenham; Hitchenden, nd,1713; Meos lands (Datchet and Ditton), 1597; Poughleys Farm, 1775

60/12/5/12 Plan of tenements 1777 Plans by Richard Binfield of tenements in Eton and Windsor, with index of lessees’ names. Later notes and alterations and some tracings inserted, c.1867- 1899 Reversed from rear : plans of London tenements, with notes of sale

60/12/5/13 Report on the state of the buildings and land on the College’s 1827 Oxfordshire estate, by J. Davis

60/12/5/14 Survey and valuation of Chattisham Hall and Blakenham June 1831 Hall, Suffolk, by John Josselyn

60/12/5/15 Register of College Property (printed) 1 Jan 1899 3 copies, some annotations

60/12/5/16 Terriers 1902 Identical binding and hands show these are part of a series. It is not known if there were others which have not survived. All include later additions and alterations, to c.1920. /1 Devon and Somerset estate. /2 Middlesex estate (Chalcots and Wilds) /3 Kent and Sussex estates

60/12/5/17 Terrier of Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire estates 1910

66 60/12/5/18 Terrier of Chalcot Estate 1938 Loose : lists of houses in the Boroughs of St. Pancras and Hampstead, 1941, with gross and rateable value

60/12/6 Manorial Records

60/12/6/1/1 Draft court book 1525 - 1537 18th cent. white vellum binding, labelled in ink `Courts, Henry VIII’. A list of courts in the hand of Tom Martin’s clerk has been pasted on to the guard. Manors of Stratfield Saye; Clatford; Goldcliff; Coldrey; Charlton Parva; Stogursey; Piddlehinton; Bledlow; St. Helen’s, Isle of Wight; Blakenham; Creeting; Sporle; Povington; Everdon; Hanging Langford; Modbury; Upton; Endeston

60/12/6/2 Stewards’ Books 1736 - 1781 /1 Proceedings in and out of court for the manors of Tew 1736 - 1750 Parva; Bledlow; Weedonbeck; Everdon Drafts and extensive memoranda, some reversed from rear. Many notes on pastedowns, including, on rear, `I appointed Richard Bradley’s successor 25 April 1749’ /2 Draft Court Barons for the manors of Little Tew, Weedon- 1736 - 1747 beck; Bledlow; Everdon Reversed from rear : personal accounts and notes of 1777 - 1781 letters written, with note on rear pastedown : `HP Oct 4 1779 weighed 14 stone 5lbs’

18th cent, white vellum binding. Title upside down on front board : Memorandum Book of various things. Upside down on rear board : An Acct. of Bills etc. in this Book paid since 28 June 1780. Cash Recd since Chris.s 1780 in this book. Spine title (20th cent.) : Court Barons 1736

60/12/6/3 Court account books 1638 - 1729 /1 Titled : 1662 etc. Norfolk Manors Suffolk etc 1662 - 1725 Accounts and memoranda for the manors of Blakenham; Bledlow; Chattisham; Creeting; East Wretham (with rental, 1664); Everdon; Tew Parva; Weedon. Indexed Reversed from rear : Piddlehinton; Hanging Langford; 1638 - 1675 Charlton Parva /2 Titled : 1680 etc. Norfolk Manors Bledlow Tew Everdon 1675 - 1729 Weedon. An earlier title, starting `Court Book’, is now illegible. Front pastedown : Dr. Ingeloe’s (crossed through) Accounts, summaries of court business and memoranda for the manors of Chattisham; Blakenham; Creeting, East Wretham; Weedon; Tew Parva; Bledlow; Piddlehinton; Charlton Parva; Hanging Langford

67 60/12/6/4 Schedule of court rolls of the manors of Piddlehinton, 1829 Hanging Langford and Charlton Parva in the possession of Francis Ingram, the Steward

60/12/7 Appointment of Stewards

60/12/7/1 Appointment of Henry Backway as Steward of the 14 Oct 1680 manors of Piddlehinton, Charlton Parva and Hanging Langford for three years Holograph of Provost Allestree

60/12/7/2 Copy appointment of William Froggatt as Steward of 26 Nov 1796 the manors of Chattisham, Blakenham and Creeting St. Mary. Autograph note by Froggatt of his appointment of Mr. Jenney of Bungay as his deputy

60/12/7/3 Sealed appointment of Arthur Hobhouse as Steward of 5 Nov 1866 of the manors of Weedonbeck, Everdon and Bledlow

60/12/7/4 Packet containing : /1 Letter from Provost Goodford to Joseph Henry Warner 16 Nov 1885 inviting him to become Steward of the Courts /2 Sealed appointment of Joseph Henry Warner as Steward 14 Feb 1888 of the manors of Bledlow, Goldcliff and Coldrey, Weedon- beck and Everdon, Brimfast and Fishers, Hullavington, Modbury Priory, Penquit and Upton and Moncton Home Pencil note in margin of the appointment of Frederick Charsley and Hugh Adolphus Carter as Deputy Stewards /3 Sealed appointment of Joseph Henry Warner to be 14 Feb 1893 Steward of the manors of Bledlow, Modbury Priory, Penquit and Upton, Piddlehinton, Little Charlton, Goldcliff and Coldrey, Weedonbeck, Everdon, Chattisham, Blakenham, Creeting St. Mary, Brimfast and Fishers and Moncton Home

60/12/7/5 Appointment by Frederick Albert Bosanquet, Steward 18 Feb 1898 of the Eton College manors, of Hugh Adolphus Carter as Deputy Steward Many alterations in red ink show this was used as a form for similar appointments

60/12/7/6 Appointment by Sir Frederick Albert Bosanquet, Steward 22 May 1914 of the Courts of the manor and rectory of Bloxham, of Hugh Adolphus Carter as Deputy Steward

60/12/7/7 Appointment by Herbert James Hope, Steward of the 16 Oct 1924 Eton College manors, of Hugh Adolphus Carter as Deputy Steward

68 60/12/7/8 Copy appointment of Wilfrid Hubert Poyer Lewis as 19 May 1931 Steward of the Courts of the Eton College manors

60/12/7/9 Copy appointment by Wilfrid Hubert Poyer Lewis, 27 May 1931 Steward of the Courts of the Eton College manors, of Hugh Adolphus Carter as Deputy Steward

60/12//7/10 Appointment by Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Urmston Willink 24 Feb 1961 Bt., Steward of the Courts of the Eton College manors, of Archibald Louis Hugh Carter as Deputy Steward

60/12/8 Acts of Parliament, Bills and Official Publications

60/12/8/1 Acts of Parliament /1 Inclosure Acts (1 vol., probably bound by the Registrar; 1797 – 1840 some annotations by him. Contains : Act to enable the Rector of Hitcham ... to exchange part of his glebe lands, 1797; Inclosure Act for Stoke Poges and Wexham, nd ; Bills for inclosing Bloxham, 1800 and Fulbrook, 1817; Acts for inclosing Little Tew, 1793, for an exchange of estates in Norfolk between the College and Wyrley Birch, 1825, for inclosing Quainton, 1840; Bill for inclosing part of the manor of Elcombe in the parish of Wroughton, Wilts, and the tithing of Usscot in the parish of Broad Hinton, nd /2 An Act for inclosing ... the Manor, parish and Liberties 1799 of Towcester, with the Hamlets of Wood Burcott and Caldecote, in the county of Northampton /3 An Act for inclosing Waste lands within the Manor 1810 of Waltham St. Lawrence, and also in as much of the Manor of Hall, as lies within the parish of Waltham St. Lawrence, in the County of Berks. /4 An Act to Enable the Provost and College of Eton, in 1826 the County of Bucks, to grant Building Leases of Lands in the Parishes of Hampstead, and Marylebone, in the County of Middlesex, and for other purposes (2 copies) /5 An Act for the Commutation of certain Manorial Rights 1841 in respect of Lands of Copyhold and Customary Tenure, and in respect of other lands subject to such Rights, and for facilitating the Enfranchisement of such Lands, and for the Improvement of such Tenure /6 An Act for effecting an Exchange between Her Majesty 1842 and the Provost and College of Eton /7 The Universities and Colleges Estates Act 1858 /8 The Universities and Colleges Estates Act Extension 1860 /9 The Improvement of Land Act 1864 /10 Public Schools (Eton College Property) Act 1873

69 60/12/8/2 Bills /1 A Bill to authorize the identifying or ascertaining of the 1838 Boundaries of Manors and Lands where such Boundaries are confused or unknown /2 Copyholds Enfranchisement Bill : drafts (4 items) 1838 – 1841 /3 Charitable Trusts Bill : drafts, Reasons why the Royal 1846 Hospitals of Christ, Bridewell and St. Thomas, St. Bartholomew’s and Bethlem, and the Foundling Hospital, should not be subject to this Bill (4 items)

60/12/8/3 Official Publications /1 An Account of all the Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tene- 1797 ments and Hereditaments in the different counties of England and Wales held by lease from the Crown. As contained in the Report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the State and Condition of the Royal Forests, Woods and Land Revenues ... to which is added an Appendix (London: Stafford and Davenport for S. Hooper and Messrs. Robinsons) /2 A Letter to James Stewart Esq. MP on the Enfranchise- 1839 ment of Copyholds by John Meadows White Esq., Solicitor to the Tithe Commissioners (London: printed by C. Adlard) /3 Forms of procedure under Stat. 4 and 5 Vict.c.35 for [1841] copyhold enfranchisements (2 copies) /4 Twenty-second Report of the Copyhold Commissioners 1864 /5 Proceedings of the Thirteenth Day of the Select Committee 28 June 1866 on the Thames Navigation Bill (printed) with ms.Rider to Clause 48 (2 items) /6 Instructions for effecting exchanges under the provisions nd of The Acts for the Inclosure, Exchange and Improvement of Land

60/12/9 Mortgages and loans

60/12/9/1 Account of moneys borrowed under the powers of the 1862 - 1869 Universities and Colleges Estates act, with statement of repayments, including loose receipts

60/12/9/2 Instructions and related papers, including copies of Orders 1868 - 1870 in Council (9 items)

60/12/9/3 Particulars of estates to be mortgaged [1870]

60/12/9/4 Requisitions and receipts (some sealed) for loans (9 items) 1870 - 1874

60/12/9/5 Clergy Mutual Assurance Society /1 Mortgage 6 Dec 1870 1. Provost and College 2. Archbishop of Canterbury and others

70 60/12/9/5/1 cont. Stogursey, Modbury, Hullavington, Long Compton (field names given), Cogges, Bromham (field names given), Sporle, Little Tew, Leominster, Sturminster

Security for £8604 at 4 1/4% and further sums

60/12/9/5/2 Covenant to produce deeds 15 Dec 1870 1. Provost and College 2. Archbishop of Canterbury and others Deeds of the estates mortgaged on 6 December 1870

60/12/9/5/3 Reconveyance 14 Dec 1895 1. Trustees of the Clergy Mutual Assurance Society 2. Provost and College Estates in 60/3/12/9/4 in consideration of repayment of the sums of £8604, £4039 19s 6d (four times), £4070 10s, £4068 3s and £4067 14s plus interest

60/12/9/6 Rough list of loans 1872

60/12/10 Appointment of Copyhold Trustees Under the Copyhold Act 1894 Trustees were appointed to receive money paid for enfranchisement of lands. The formal appointment was made by the Minister of Agriculture. See also COLL/B5/20 60/12/10/1 Hugh Vibart Macnaghten in place of Francis Hay 14 Sept 1920 Rawlins decd. 60/12/10/2 Cyril Argentine Alington in place of Cecil Lubbock 6 July 1922 60/12/10/3 Hugh Vibart Macnaghten and Cecil Argentine Alington 27 May 1926 60/12/10/4 Clarence Henry Kennett Marten in place of Hugh Vibart 28 Nov 1929 Macnaghten decd. 60/12/10/5 Claude Aurelius Elliott in place of Cecil Argentine 26 March 1934 Alington 60/12/10/6 Clarence Henry Kennett Marten and Claude Aurelius 6 May 1938 Elliott

60/12/11 Appointment of Tithe Act Trustees Under various Tithe Acts Trustees were appointed to receive money paid to tithe owners for the redemption of tithe rentcharges. The formal appointment was made by the Minister of Agriculture. 60/12/11/1 Hugh Vibart Macnaghten in place of Francis Hay 26 July 1920 Rawlins decd. 60/12/11/2 Cyril Argentine Alington in place of Cyril Lubbock 27 July 1922 60/12/11/3 Cyril Argentine Alington in place of Clarence Henry 20 Dec 1929 Marten 60/12/11/4 Claude Aurelius Elliott in place of Cyril Argentine 6 March 1934 Alington 60/12/11/5 Clarence Henry Kennett Marten and Claude Aurelius 10 June 1937

71 60/12/11/5 cont. Elliott (to receive redemption stock under the Tithe Act, 1936)

60/12/11/6 Alfred Edward Conybeare in place of Clarence Henry 31 May 1949 Kennett Marten decd.

60/12/12 College v. Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Foods

In March 1962 the College initiated a hearing in the High Court to determine their leasing powers under the various Schemes and Acts which had regulated their property dealings. The matter was made urgent by the development of the Chalcots Estate .

60/12/12/1 Bundle marked P.P.5 containing certified copies of statutes referred to in the Bursar’s affidavit, 1877 – 1961

60/12/12/2 Photocopy of judgement 20 Sept 1962

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60/13 RESUMPTIONS

Introduction

Between 1450 and 1456 Parliament passed three Acts of Resumption (in May 1450, March 1451 and 1455 - 56). Since 1437 much Crown land had been alienated, often permanently, and often to household men such as the Duke of Suffolk, and the King was heavily in debt. These Acts were an attempt to reform his finances so that he could more easily `live of his own’ by reclaiming many of these grants and ensuring that if they were granted out again the terms were more favourable to the Crown. They were also an expression of the feeling that at a time when things were going badly if not disastrously, especially in France, those who bore most responsibility had deceived the King to ensure that they were extremely well rewarded.

All these Acts contained exemption clauses from which Eton and King’s College benefited – an indication that Henry’s foundations were dear to his heart, for even when an exemption was included in the original petition, Henry in his response made it much wider. In the Act of 1455 -1456, made when the Duke of York was Protector, Eton and King’s are not specifically mentioned in the petition at all but Henry again included them in his response (RP v 306a). Under Edward IV, Eton enjoyed no such protection. Parliament in 1461 passed a sweeping act enabling Edward to take in hand his predecessor’s grants (RP v 463-475) and Eton was not immune, though many estates and privileges were regranted in 1462. From 1463 the College was threatened with annexation to St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, although this threat receded and a part of its endowment was restored. In the 1465 Act Eton and King’s were again specifically exempt (RP v 523a)as well as receiving exemption as part of a wider class. The 1467 Act also specifically excluded Eton and King’s.

In spite of these exemptions there is no doubt that Eton did become poorer under Edward IV and the number of Fellows was reduced from ten to seven. A comparison of the estates that appear in ECR 63 with later audit rolls makes the losses clear, and the College appears to have retained for some time the hope of regaining some at least of what it had lost, hence its lists of former endowments. The draft of the petition for the return of Sherborne Priory (60/13/4) may represent a much larger number of such requests.

Three other types of documents are catalogued here; copies of the exemption clauses (60/13/1); a petition for exemption (60/13/2); and lists of estates resumed (60/13/3). There are exemption clauses for every Henrician act except that of 1455, although the exemption clause relating to 1467 had become separated and was catalogued as 49/176. It is listed here also for completeness. The list of estates resumed also notes various strays.

For a full discussion of the resumptions, see B. P. Wolffe : The Royal Demesne in English History (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1970). References are given to Rotuli Parliamentorum (RP) A rough list by Patrick Strong contains more detailed notes on individual documents.

73 60/13/1 Exemption clauses /1 Roll with filing hole at head and stitch hole at foot, numbered 1450 on dorse 27 . 3 paragraphs Petition : general exemption of Eton and King’s but life grants with a reversion to either College to be resumed until the decease of the grantee; Act not to apply to grant to Nicholas Clopton et al. of the advowson of the church of Much Billing, Northants., as this was in exchange for the advowson of Eton (RP v 184a-b). Response: this petition or any other not to extend to or be prejudicial to King’s or Eton in respect of lordships, manors, lands etc granted by the King in perpetuity or for lives or years; any person granted estate for matters to do with either College exempted (RP v 197b- 198a) /2 Paper bifolium, numbered on dorse 29. Endorsed by Marten 1451 `Copyes, Clauses, Supplicaciones concerning ye Act of Resumption. 3’; also an early 16th cent. note, `An Acte of resumption xxix Henry vi’ The copyist has omitted one clause, that immediately following the exemption of alien priory possessions (RP v 218b) and there are occasional differences of wording or spelling from the Rolls; in copying the response he has at one point put in King’s only, omitting Eton. Petition : exemption of Eton and King’s from resumption of grants of liberties, franchises, immunities etc. (RP v 217b) (this document does not record the immediately following reference in the Rolls to certain of the privileges granted them being nevertheless `over chargefull and noyous’ and the request that such grants should be resumed); exemption of possessions of alien priories granted to Eton and King’s (RP v 218b) Response : general exemption for both Colleges and for persons receiving grants for matters to do with either of them (RP v 220b) /3 Roll of three membranes in three hands, numbered 21. Endorsed [1451] (15th cent) Declaracio et retraccio libertatum concessarum Collegiorum de Eton et Cambrig; (16th cent) Concernens Colleg’ de Eton et Cambrigge Specifies that this act of resumption or revocation of liberties, franchises and privileges should not apply to Eton or King’s except for certain (listed) liberties. The text of this document does not appear in RP but presumably the liberties listed are those that Parliament considered to be `over chargefull and noyous’ and wished to see resumed even if the two colleges were generally exempt. Membranes 2 and 3 read more like the original grants. /4 Roll of 1 membrane. Endorsed : 4 1465 Provides that this act shall not extend to the hurt and prejudice of various religious and charitable bodies including colleges (RP v 518) [49/176] Copy of a clause exempting Eton from this act of resumption 1467 (RP v 606a) /5 Paper sheet, originally inserted in /2. Endorsed : 36. Proviso pro 1473

74 60/13/1/2/5 cont. collegio de Eton anno Regis E quarti xiiij Act not to extend or be prejudicial to Eton (RP vi 79b) Below text : Concordat cum irrotulato In anno xiiij. E iiij per me Johannem Gilez

60/13/2 Petition of Eton College and King’s College Cambridge to 1460 - 1461? King Henry VI in Parliament Asks him to provide that the act of resumption should not be prejudicial to the Colleges or to any lands etc held before 1 October 1460 except certain named estates. (With the exception of Deerhurst Priory these belong to King’s).

The text of this petition does not appear in RP; either it was ignored, or its requests dealt with in other ways, or it relates to the 1460-61 Readeption parliament, whose records do not survive. A transcript of this clause is enrolled at 60/3/2 f.ii.

60/13/3 Lists of estates resumed There are several copies of such lists and Martin’s Digest notes on folio 40 `An Account of such Estates as were taken from the College by K Edwd. 4th’. The earliest version is probably that catalogued by Blakiston as 39/140. Other strays have been noted here; the remainder, catalogued for the first time, were found in a drawer in the library, along with the will of Henry V (ECR 59). The estates are listed in different orders in different documents. Both /1 and /2 group the estates by new holder but in /1 the new owner comes first, in /2 the estates. /3 and /4 list each estate individually. A collated list of estates resumed is to be found as appendix D in ECR 61. The catalogue of ECR 63 and the entries in the appropriate ECR catalogue should also be consulted. 60/13/3/1 One membrane nd, temp. Edw IV Memorandum of possessions once held by Eton College and now by others. List of new holders (in English) with name of estate(s) held (in Latin) God’s House in Southampton : Monk Sherborne Priory, Hants.

King’s College Cambridge : manor of Lessingham, Norfolk manor of Horstead, Norfolk manor of Toft Monks, Norfolk

Chapel of Barking by the Tower : Priory of Tooting Bec, Surrey

St. Katherine’s by the Tower : manor of Quarley, Hants. manor of Chisenbury, Wilts. John Fogge, knight, for his chantry : pension from the Prior of Lewes, Suffolk manors of Preston and Hooe, Sussex

College of Fotheringhay : manor of Charlton Magna, Wilts.

75 priory or manor of Beckford, Glos. land and tenements in the county of Wilts. formerly belonging to the Abbey of Beaubec (Seine-Maritime)

Tavistock Abbey : Cowick Priory, Devon

Mount Grace Priory : Beggar Priory, Yorkshire

Tewkesbury Abbey : Deerhurst Priory, Glos.

St. George’s Chapel, Windsor : reversion of the manor of Grovebury alias Leighton Buzzard, Beds.

King Edward : fee farms and annuities paid by the Prior of Southwick for the manor of Southwick

John Pylkington : hospice and four shops at Aldersgate, City of London

John Googh : Horned Weir

King Edward : manor of Moot (le Mote), Windsor, Berks. lordship of Langley Marish and Wraysbury, Bucks. lands and tenements in Eton bailiffs of Windsor : fishery in the Thames in the parish of New Windsor

(In pale ink and different hand): The priory or rectory of Upavon, Wilts. The Priory of Ivychurch by Clarendon has 3 closes within the park of Clarendon. Certain lands called Shaw Lands included in the new park beside Windsor with the park le Mote valued yearly at 20s. Item 3 1/2 acres on which is made an oven for bricks by Windsor

60/13/3/2 Paper roll late 15th cent Estates grouped by new holder. Some values given. The dorse, in a different hand, lists some of these estates in a different order, without new owners or values, and certain additional pensions and tithes

60/13/3/3 Part of paper sheet late 15th/early 16th cent Headed : These maners pryoryes and other possessions in thys byll conteyned were yeven by the most Crysten and devoute prynce kyng Harry the vjth unto hys College of our lady of Eton and nowe witholden from the sayd College by diverse persons as hereafter appereth List by estate, with new owners and values (English)

60/13/3/4 Rental early 16th cent Bifolium. Note on f.2 ...taken from ye [Colle]g by kynge Ed.iv (17th cent. hand); total of rents (£168 3s 11d) on f.1v

76 60/13/3/4 cont. in19th cent hand List of estates with value. Includes several not found in other lists : Yenston Priory, Somerset; Tintagel rectory, Cornwall; tenement in Gloucester; manor of Woolstone, Glos.; two mills in Leighton Buzzard, Beds.; manor of Damariscourt, Dorset; manor of Clatford, Wilts.; Christow rectory, Devon; Spreyton rectory, Devon; [Burlescomb Priory, Devon]; manor of Uckington, Glos.; manor of Taynton, Oxon.; Aldermaston rectory, Berks.; manor of Milborne Bec, Dorset; St. Thomas the Martyr rectory in Cowyck Street, [Exeter], Devon; lordships of Lutton (Luton) and Povington, Dorset; rectory of Bromley [Bramley, Hants.?]; Blackmanstone, Dorset; lands in Croydon, Surrey; Underore in Windsor Some of these appear to be estates that form part of larger parcels, others were later returned to the College.

60/13/4 Draft petition for the return of the Priory of Monk Sherborne nd alias West Sherborne, Hampshire; the manor or priory of Beckford, and its members in the counties of Gloucestershire and Lincoln; rectory of the prebend of Upavon, Wiltshire, with the chapel of Charlton; alien priory of Cowick, Devon; apport of 100s from the priory of Lewes; manor of Preston and Hooe, Sussex. Endorsed : Supplication (contemporary) and 6 (18th cent.) Probably temp. Henry VIII

60/13/5 Lists of estates lost to the College, with values. Includes list of 18th cent estates retained and extracts from the audit books showing allowances etc. Some annotations by Provost Goodall

60/13/6 List of Acts of Resumption and petitions 18th cent

The following documents listed elsewhere also relate to resumptions.

[39/9] On the dorse, a list of estates with dates of original grant

[39/140] A list of manors or alien priories formerly belonging to Eton with a note of new holders Endorsed : (by Martin) Drawer 54 (1); in later hand, ` Several old rolls relating to mannors and lands taken from Eton College & to whom given. Temp. Ed.4th’ Norfolk. Manors of Lessingham, Horsted and Toftes : King’s College, Cambridge Surrey. Tooting Bec Priory : chapel of Barking by the Tower. Sussex. Manors of Preston and Hooe, pension from the Prior of Lewes : John Fogge, knight, for his chantry at Ashford, Kent. Wiltshire. Manor of Charlton; Gloucestershire and Lincolnshire. Manor of Beckford (including Colsterworth , Lincs.) and lands and tenements that belonged to the Abbey of Beaubec (Aston-on-Carrant) : College of Fotheringhay. Hampshire. Fee farm or annuity paid to the king by the Prior of Southwick for the manor of Colemore

77 London. Hospice or place outside Aldersgate (Aldrisgate), with four shops, formerly part of Ogbourne Priory : John (struck through) Pilkington had them, Wyatt has them, servants of the king. Oxfordshire. Watermill at Goring formerly part of Ogbourne Priory : Edward Ellesmere in the name of Lord de la Straunge. Essex. All tithes from the village of Bures St. Mary Gloucestershire. Brimpsfield Priory Hampshire. Manor of Quarley; Wiltshire. Manor of Chisenbury : the house of St. Katherine’s by the Tower. Dorset. Hospital of St. John, Dorchester : Master Richard Hill. Gloucestershire. Deerhurst Priory : Tewkesbury Abbey. Devon. Cowick Priory : Tavistock Abbey. Yorkshire. Beggar Priory : Mount Grace Priory. Bedfordshire. Manor of Grovebury, otherwise known as the manor of Leighton Buzzard, with appurtenances : St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Essex. Pension of 18 marks from the Vicar of M[ore]ton : Vicar of the same place. Cambridgeshire. Pension of 40s from the church of Fulborne: [king in 47/83]. Berkshire. Manor of Moot (le Mote) by Windsor : the king. Buckinghamshire. Manor or lordship of Langley with Wraysbury : Queen Elizabeth. Lands, tenements, rents and services in Eton : the king. Weir called Hornedweir : John Gough of Eton. Wiltshire. Priory or Rectory of Upavon : Prior of Ivychurch by Clarendon. Surrey. Manors of Banstead and Walton on the Hill : Queen Elizabeth. Faintly interlined above and below : and park and warren there and lands in Charlwood with advowson of Walton church. Hertfordshire. Pension of St. Alban’s Abbey : Queen Elizabeth. Buckinghamshire. Fishery in the Thames in the parish of New Windsor : Bailiffs of New Windsor. Apport of 40s from Tickford Priory. [Kent]. Apport of £4 pa from Folkestone Priory. [Hampshire]. Priory of [Monk] Sherborne : House of God, Southampton. 2 dolia of Gascon wine from the king’s butler.

[47/83] List of lands granted by Henry VI and resumed in before July 1467 1461 Roll of two membranes

[49/296] List of manors etc in the Endowment Charter of 25 March [mid-1460s] 1441 (wrongly given as 4 March) no longer in the College’s possession.

[60/12/2/1] pp113-114 Manors, priories and other possessions given c.1570s by King Henry ... and now witholden Apparently an enrolled version of 39/140

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